Seeking for health : a medical reading of Jane Austen
This thesis discusses Jane Austen’s medical knowledge and shows that the representations of health and sickness in her fiction precisely voice the medical discourses of her time and her exquisite use of them in her satire and criticism. The Introduction explains the general background of medicine in...
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University of Aberdeen
2003
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401418 |