Title: Bedside seductions
First published: December 15, 1997
Description: During the Victorian era, the status and meaning of the nurse experienced remarkable and telling shifts. Bedside Seductions is the first book-length exploration into the significance of the nurse in mid-Victorian literary and social history.

By carefully sifting through legal, medical, and literary sources including novels, newspaper articles, and private letters, Catherine Judd reveals how the changing perceptions of the nurse during mid-Victorian times allow for fascinating insights into issues of class, gender, and race in this period.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Seduction in literature, Social classes in literature, Nurses, Sex role in literature, Social conflict in literature, Women and literature, English fiction, Nurses in literature, Literature and medicine, Medical fiction, 44.52 medical therapy, 15.70 history of Europe, Modern Literature, Verpleegkundigen, Sociale aspecten, History, 19th Century, History of Nursing, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Medicine in literature, Nursing, history, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901
LC classification: PR878.N87 J83 1998