IN HIS VITRIOLIC ESSAY OF 1880, Fiction-Fair and Foul, John Ruskin meditates on the surfeit of death and illness in the Victorian novel, claiming that detailed, clinical depictions of morbidity are the hallmarks of the genre: "[the modern reader can] gather into one Caina of gelid putrescence the entire product of modern infidel imagination, amusing itself with destruction of the body, and busying itself with aberration of the mind..." (166).
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Bedside seductions
nursing and the Victorian imagination, 1830-1880
1st ed.
by Catherine Judd
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During the Victorian era, the status and meaning of the nurse experienced remarkable and telling shifts. Bedside Seductions is the first book-length exploration into the significance of the nurse in mid-Victorian literary and social history.
By carefully sifting through legal, medical, and literary sources including novels, newspaper articles, and private letters, Catherine Judd reveals how the changing perceptions of the nurse during mid-Victorian times allow for fascinating insights into issues of class, gender, and race in this period.
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History, History and criticism, Seduction in literature, Social classes in literature, Nurses, Sex role in literature, Social conflict in literature, Women and literature, English fiction, Nurses in literature, Literature and medicine, Medical fiction, 44.52 medical therapy, 15.70 history of Europe, Modern Literature, Verpleegkundigen, Sociale aspecten, History, 19th Century, History of Nursing, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Medicine in literature, Nursing, history, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901Places
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Bedside seductions: nursing and the Victorian imagination, 1830-1880
1998, St. Martin's Press
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Bedside seductions: nursing and the Victorian imagination, 1830-1880
1998, Macmillan
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Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880
December 15, 1997, Palgrave Macmillan
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