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Introduction Convalescent Time: Caregiving and the Strain of Modern Life
Chapter 1 Convalescence and the Working Class: Convalescent Homes, Illness Outcomes, and Charles Dickens's Bleak House
Chapter 2 Spiritual Convalescence: Reading against the Deathbed in Convalescent Devotionals and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth
Chapter 3 Novel Reading as Convalescence: Gender and Leisure in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
Chapter 4 Convalescence and Mental Illness: Recuperability in Insane Asylums, the After-Care Association, and Samuel Butler's Erewhon
Chapter 5 Imperial Convalescence: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Convalescent Depots, and the Birth of Rehabilitation Medicine
Conclusion Convalescent Futures: Recovery in the Age of the Remission Society
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Convalescent Time: Caregiving and the Strain of Modern Life
Chapter 1 Convalescence and the Working Class: Convalescent Homes, Illness Outcomes, and Charles Dickens's Bleak House
Chapter 2 Spiritual Convalescence: Reading against the Deathbed in Convalescent Devotionals and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth
Chapter 3 Novel Reading as Convalescence: Gender and Leisure in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
Chapter 4 Convalescence and Mental Illness: Recuperability in Insane Asylums, the After-Care Association, and Samuel Butler's Erewhon
Chapter 5 Imperial Convalescence: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Convalescent Depots, and the Birth of Rehabilitation Medicine
Conclusion Convalescent Futures: Recovery in the Age of the Remission Society
Notes
Bibliography
Index