Victorian medicine and social reform : Florence Nightingale among thenovelists / Louise Penner
- 作者： Penner, Louise
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- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2010
- 叢書名： Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
- 主題： Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910--Influence , Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910--Political and social views , Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910 , English prose literature--Great Britain--History and criticism , English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism , Social problems in literature. , Medicine in Literature. , Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century , Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century , Medicine in Literature--Great Britain , Health care reform--Great Britain. , History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 9780230106598 、 0230106595
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- 書目註：This volume traces the interrelations and reciprocal influence between Florence Nightingale and important novelists of her time such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index
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- 系統號： 005171693 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced novelists such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Their novels of social realism, in turn, influenced Nightingale's later essays on poverty and Indian famine. This study draws original conclusions on the relationship between Nightingale s work and its historical context, gender politics, and such twenty-first-century analogues as celebrity activists Angelina Jolie, Al Gore, and Nicole Kidman.
內容註
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 : Nightingalein the twenty-first century : the legend versus the life