Health and sickness in the early american novel: social affection and eighteenth-century medicine
Auteur :
Tuthill, Maureen
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349955671
Date de publication :
15 juin 2018
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic.