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The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction

by Miriam Bailin

1994 169 pages eng

In this exploration of the significance of illness in the Victorian literary imagination Miriam Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature. Dr Bailin draws on non-fictional accounts of illness b…

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