Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

by Maureen Tuthill (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2016

  $116.58

  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.