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ISBN: 041536048X 0415836158 1134237340 9786611158033 1281158038 0203008235 9780203008232 9781134237340 9781281158031 6611158030 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Routledge
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This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts.Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as plague, nursing and the hospital environment and focusing on certain key texts including Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.
English fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Medicine in literature --- Literature and medicine --- Great Britain --- History --- Europe --- Epidemics in literature --- Communicable diseases in literature --- Medicine in literature. --- Communicable diseases in literature. --- Epidemics in literature. --- Diseases in literature. --- Medical care in literature --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- History and criticism.
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ISBN: 9789004648227 9789042000759 Year: 1996 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill
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In this first systematic assessment of Ruffini's literary achievement, the seven novels that are apparently so different from each other emerge as an aesthetically coherent and individualized contribution to the mid-Victorian fictional canon. Composed in English by an Italian exile resident in Paris, they describe interactions among men and women of many nationalities and trace interesting European journeys and pilgrimages during the early days of mass tourism. While thus documenting such phenomena as expanding rail networks, holiday resorts and health spas, the novels dramatize, more importantly, the inadequacy of narrowly local and intolerant perspectives. The protagonists must gain a broadly cosmopolitan vision and sense of mutuality as they pursue the common quest for self-integration and for a purpose in life. A patriotic commitment like that which had engaged Ruffini in his youthful Mazzinian phase cannot now offer that purpose, and the narratives convey strong scepticism about other ideals, such as romantic love, too. More positively the stories contain many dedicated physicians, who practice a holistic medicine and who thereby substitute for the often sinister priests of a corrupt religious establishment. Ministering to the humanity that Ruffini typically portrays as sick or wounded and tormented by misanthropy and guilt, they are the chief mitigators of the bleakness of the modern condition. .
Criticism and interpretation --- Literature and society --- Literature and society --- History
ISBN: 9042000759 Year: 1996 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi
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Literature and society --- History --- Ruffini, Giovanni, --- Fictional works.
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