Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale
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- Engelsk
- 256 sider
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Tales of Health is about the way the Romantic National Tale exercises power and defines the boundaries of citizenship through the categories of health, illness, and disability. When we see these categories at work in these novels, we understand how socio-political belonging is premised on the conception of the healthy body, to the exclusion of bodies deemed otherwise. Employing the Medical Humanities and, especially, the Social Determinants of Health, this book shows that the National Tale achieves its consolidation of the nation through its enforcement of a rigorous politics of health that polices its characters’ and citizens’ bodies. Focusing on novels from Sydney Owenson, Maria Edgeworth, Germaine de Staël, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen allows this argument to show that the imbricated concerns of health and citizenship extend well beyond the immediate anxiety roused by the implementation of the 1800 Act of Union. This book argues that, by prioritising the categories of health, illness, and disability, we better understand how power and citizenship function in this widely influential early nineteenth-century genre of Romantic fiction and, thus, how we continue to envision citizenship as an extension of bodily characteristics.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal256
- Udgivelsesdato28-02-2026
- ISBN139781805966807
- Forlag Liverpool University Press
- FormatHardback
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10 cm
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