Author: Gillian Thomas
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau Vol 1
Author: Deborah Logan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. Volume 1 contains letters from 1819-1837.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. Volume 1 contains letters from 1819-1837.
Harriet Martineau, First Woman Sociologist
Author: Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is about the life and work of Harriet Martineau, English public educator, sociologist, historian, and journalist.
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is about the life and work of Harriet Martineau, English public educator, sociologist, historian, and journalist.
Harriet Martineau
Author: Gillian Thomas
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
Author:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Victorian Pain
Author: Rachel Ablow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, Victorian Pain offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. Rachel Ablow provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. She explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, Victorian Pain shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons—and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, Victorian Pain offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. Rachel Ablow provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. She explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, Victorian Pain shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons—and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read.
Medical Examiner
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The British and Foreign Medical Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Harriet Martineau on Women
Author: Harriet Martineau
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Maria H. Frawley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226261220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Britain did not invent chronic illness, but its social climate allowed hundreds of men and women, from intellectuals to factory workers, to assume the identity of "invalid." Whether they suffered from a temporary condition or an incurable disease, many wrote about their experiences, leaving behind an astonishingly rich and varied record of disability in Victorian Britain. Using an array of primary sources, Maria Frawley here constructs a cultural history of invalidism. She describes the ways that Evangelicalism, industrialization, and changing patterns of doctor/patient relationships all converged to allow a culture of invalidism to flourish, and explores what it meant for a person to be designated—or to deem oneself—an invalid. Highlighting how different types of invalids developed distinct rhetorical strategies, her absorbing account reveals that, contrary to popular belief, many of the period's most prominent and prolific invalids were men, while many women found invalidism an unexpected opportunity for authority. In uncovering the wide range of cultural and social responses to notions of incapacity, Frawley sheds light on our own historical moment, similarly fraught with equally complicated attitudes toward mental and physical disorder.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226261220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Britain did not invent chronic illness, but its social climate allowed hundreds of men and women, from intellectuals to factory workers, to assume the identity of "invalid." Whether they suffered from a temporary condition or an incurable disease, many wrote about their experiences, leaving behind an astonishingly rich and varied record of disability in Victorian Britain. Using an array of primary sources, Maria Frawley here constructs a cultural history of invalidism. She describes the ways that Evangelicalism, industrialization, and changing patterns of doctor/patient relationships all converged to allow a culture of invalidism to flourish, and explores what it meant for a person to be designated—or to deem oneself—an invalid. Highlighting how different types of invalids developed distinct rhetorical strategies, her absorbing account reveals that, contrary to popular belief, many of the period's most prominent and prolific invalids were men, while many women found invalidism an unexpected opportunity for authority. In uncovering the wide range of cultural and social responses to notions of incapacity, Frawley sheds light on our own historical moment, similarly fraught with equally complicated attitudes toward mental and physical disorder.