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Health and sickness in the early American novelsocial affection and eighteenth-century medicine /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Health and sickness in the early American novelby Maureen Tuthill.
Reminder of title:	social affection and eighteenth-century medicine /
Author:	Tuthill, Maureen.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016.
Description:	xiv, 253 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	American fictionHistory and criticism.18th century
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1
ISBN:	9781137597151$q(electronic bk.)

Health and sickness in the early American novelsocial affection and eighteenth-century medicine /
Tuthill, Maureen.

Health and sickness in the early American novelsocial affection and eighteenth-century medicine /[electronic resource] :by Maureen Tuthill. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xiv, 253 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A "Very Unfeeling World": The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson's America -- 2. "Your Health and My Happiness": Sickness and Health in The Coquette and Female Quixotism -- 3. "The Best Means of Retaining Health": Self-determined Health and Social Discipline in Early America -- 4. "The Means of Subsistence": Health, Wealth, and Social Affection in a Yellow Fever World -- 5. The "Learned Doctor": Tyler's Literary Endorsement of a Federalist Elite -- 6. "Some Yankee Non-sense about Humanity": Hiding Away African Health in Early American Fiction -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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. Good health is depicted as an extremely positive social value, almost an a priori condition of membership in the community. Characters who have the "glow of health" tend to enjoy wealth and prestige; those who become sick are burdened by poverty and debt or have made bad decisions that have jeopardized their status. Bodies that waste away, faint, or literally disappear off of the pages of America's first fiction are resisting the conditions that ail them; as they plead for their right to exist, they draw attention to the injustice, apathy, and greed that afflict them.

ISBN: 9781137597151$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

297594
American fiction
--History and criticism.--18th century

LC Class. No.: PS375 / .T88 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 813.209

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