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Bedside seductions : nursing and the Victorian imagination, 1830-1880

Title: Bedside seductions : nursing and the Victorian imagination, 1830-1880 / Catherine Judd.
Author: Judd, Catherine.
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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xii, 211 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

During the Victorian era, the status and 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.
By carefully sifting through legal, medical, and literary sources including novels, newspaper articles, and private letters, Catherine Judd reveals how the changing perceptions of the nurse during mid-Victorian times allow for fascinating insights into issues of class, gender, and race in this period.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Sick-Nursing and the Victorian Imagination -- 1. "Infinite Nastiness": Social Healing and the Pathology of the Victorian Novel (1830-1880) -- 2. Thy Magic Touch": Nursing, Sexuality, and the "Dangerous Classes" (1829-1880) -- 3. A "Scrutinising and Conscious Eye": Nursing and the Carceral in Jane Eyre (1847) -- 4. Scars, Stitches, and Healing: Metaphors of Female Artistry In Gaskell's Ruth (1853) -- 5. "A Female Ulysses": Mary Seacole, Homeric Epic, and the Trope of Heroic Nursing (1854-1857) -- 6. Nursing and Female Heroics: George Eliot and Florence Nightingale (1835-1873).

ISBN

0312177054

LCCN

97032199

OCLC

ocm37806009

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Columbia University Libraries