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

Bedside seductions : nursing and the Victorian imagination, 1830-1880 / Catherine Judd.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Judd, Catherine, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nurses in literature.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Nurses > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Medical fiction > History and criticism.
Social conflict in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Seduction in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sick-Nursing and the Victorian Imagination
  • "Infinite Nastiness": Social Healing and the Pathology of the Victorian Novel (1830-1880)
  • "Thy Magic Touch": Nursing, Sexuality, and the "Dangerous Classes" (1829-1880)
  • A "Scrutinising and Conscious Eye": Nursing and the Carceral in Jane Eyre (1847)
  • Scars, Stitches, and Healing: Metaphors of Female Artistry in Gaskell's Ruth (1853)
  • "A Female Ulysses": Mary Seacole, Homeric Epic, and the Trope of Heroic Nursing (1854-1857)
  • Nursing and Female Heroics: George Eliot and Florence Nightingale (1835-1873).

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