Title Victorian medicine and social reform : Florence Nightingale among the novelists / Louise Penner

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 193 pages) : 1 illustration Series Nineteenth-century major lives and letters Nineteenth-century major lives and letters. Contents Defending home and country : Florence Nightingale's training of domestic detectives -- On giving : poor law reform, work, and family in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton -- Competing visions : Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian health reform -- Engaging the Victorian reading public : Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876 -- Epilogue : Nightingale in the twenty-first century : the legend versus the life Summary This volume traces the interrelations and reciprocal influence between Florence Nightingale and important novelists of her time such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Influence Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 fast Subject English prose literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Social problems in literature. Medicine in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Health care reform. Medicine in Literature Health Care Reform History, 19th Century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Health care reform English prose literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature and medicine Literature and society Medicine in literature Political and social views Social problems in literature SUBJECT United Kingdom Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230106598 0230106595 9781349379552 1349379557

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