Lexington Books
Pages: 184
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66692-264-6 • Hardback • November 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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Michaela Keck is senior lecturer in the English and American studies department at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Contextualizing and Reading Health, Illness, and Repair
Chapter Two: Little Patient Beth
Chapter Three: Illness and the Everyday in Little Men and Jo’s Boys
Chapter Four: Girls’ Education for Health in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom
Chapter Five: Trauma, Illness, and Repair in Hospital Sketches
Chapter Six: The Nurse’s Battle in Alcott’s Short(er) Fiction
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author