Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture

The profuse illness and nursing narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide variety of texts ranging from social reform writing to autobiographies, from novels to poetry, physical suffering was often closely assoc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demirhan, Basak
Other Authors: Helena Michie
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64420