During the Victorian era, the status and the 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.
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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). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
saintly nursing, feminine carceral, nursing reform movement, saintly nurse, heroic nursing, pauper nurses, heroic nurse, nursing reformers, nursing scenes, female heroics, nurse fantasy, imaginative labor, domestic ideology, sensation novel, creative labor, sick chamber Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Eyre, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Grace Poole, Mary Garth, Mary Magdalen, Sister Dora, Bertha Mason, Janet's Repentance, London Times, Sairey Gamp, Barrett Browning, Crimean Peninsula, Dorothea Brooke, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Levine, Charles Kingsley, Charlotte Bronte, Janet Dempster, John Rivers, Maria Temple, Mary Seacole, Richard Mason, Seacole Fund, Harley Street New!
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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). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
saintly nursing, feminine carceral, nursing reform movement, saintly nurse, heroic nursing, pauper nurses, heroic nurse, nursing reformers, nursing scenes, female heroics, nurse fantasy, imaginative labor, domestic ideology, sensation novel, creative labor, sick chamber Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Eyre, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Grace Poole, Mary Garth, Mary Magdalen, Sister Dora, Bertha Mason, Janet's Repentance, London Times, Sairey Gamp, Barrett Browning, Crimean Peninsula, Dorothea Brooke, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Levine, Charles Kingsley, Charlotte Bronte, Janet Dempster, John Rivers, Maria Temple, Mary Seacole, Richard Mason, Seacole Fund, Harley Street New!
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- Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) by Charlotte Brontė on 20 pages
- Jane Eyre: Play by Constance Cox on 15 pages
- Adam Bede (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot on 6 pages
- Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot on 6 pages
- RC Series Bundle: The Birth of the Clinic (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on page 20, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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