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4091620Reading for Healthhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/reading-for-health-9780821445631/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2573682/3ba3914c-80d4-4ec5-8b22-50bc00ae94ff.jpg?v=63838415934953000013931548MXNOhio University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>In <em>Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel,</em> Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Bront, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional therapeutic form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of healthwhat Wright refers to as a hygienic narrativeboth in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.</p>...4027799Reading for Health13931548https://www.gandhi.com.mx/reading-for-health-9780821445631/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2573682/3ba3914c-80d4-4ec5-8b22-50bc00ae94ff.jpg?v=638384159349530000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169780821445631_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_<p>In <em>Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel,</em> Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional “therapeutic” form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of “health”—what Wright refers to as a “hygienic” narrative—both in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.</p>(*_*)9780821445631_<p>In <em>Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel,</em> Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Bront, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional therapeutic form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of healthwhat Wright refers to as a hygienic narrativeboth in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.</p>...9780821445631_Ohio University Presslibro_electonico_f5d781f1-2b78-3ea4-956c-92223a462321_9780821445631;9780821445631_9780821445631Erika WrightInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-c71ab399-a8c9-4f45-a4a2-2343a37925e7.epub2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00Ohio University Press