Victorian medicine and social reform: Florence Nightingale among the novelists

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. INDICE: Introduction 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: Nightingaleand the Madras Famine of 1876 Epilogue

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61595-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 220
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés