Healing the republic: the language of health and the culture of nationalism in nineteenth century America

In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers, and literary artists in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. These "fictions" of health include annual repo...

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1. Verfasser: Burbick, Joan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 82
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Zusammenfassung:In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers, and literary artists in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. These "fictions" of health include annual reports of mental asylums, home physician manuals, social reform books, and novels consumed by the middle class that functioned as cautionary tales of well-being
Read together these writings engage in a counterpoint of voices at once constructing and debating the hegemonic values of the emerging American nation
That political values flow from the daily exigencies of survival and enjoyment is one of the claims advanced by theorists of cultural hegemony. Broadening this assumption, the narratives of health presented here address the demands and desires of everyday life and construct a national discourse with directives on control, authority, and subordination
Beschreibung:X, 355 S.
ISBN:0521454344

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