Victorian medicine and social reform
Subtitle: Florence Nightingale among the novelists
By: Louise Penner.
Series: Nineenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230615953
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Influence; Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Political and social views; English prose literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature; Medicine in literature; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defending home and country : Florence Nightingale's training of domestic detectives; title: On giving : poor law reform, "work", and "family" in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton; title: Competing visions : Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian health reform; title: Engaging the Victorian reading public : Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876; title: epilogue.