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Illness, Literature, and Care: Vulnerable Lives
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Illness, Literature, and Care: Vulnerable Lives
Contributors:
By (Author) Robert Leigh Davis
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
19th February 2026
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
Professional and Scholarly
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
1
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
Literature, Medicine, and Culture: Body Wisdom, through an examination of literature, intervenes into contemporary debates on care by positioning it as a matter of attunement or resonance. It explores how writers coping with illness and disability challenge myths of control in inventive and resilient ways. The author discusses this adaptive resilience, or body wisdom, and traces its expression through twentieth and twenty-first century texts.
Author Bio
Robert Leigh Davis is Professor Emeritus of English at Wittenberg University.
