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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel - Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel - Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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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.
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