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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penner, Louise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:
English prose literature > Great Britain > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nightingale, Florence, > 1820-1910 > Influence.
Nightingale, Florence, > 1820-1910 > Political and social views.
Social problems in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Table of 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.