num_pages: 152
description: First edition. This book uncovers the relationship between the fiction and the medical and socio-political discourse of early Victorian England. Uses the works of well-known authors such as Carlyle, Kingsley, and Dickens, as well as medical reports, sanitary tracts, and social commentary to discuss the wide disparity in the level of health between the rich and the poor. Illustrated. xi+ i , 152 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
language: English
title: The rich man and the diseased poor in early Victorian literature
titlecomplete: The rich man and the diseased poor in early Victorian literature
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Humanities Press