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Curative illnesses : medico-national allegory in Québécois fiction / Julie Robert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robert, Julie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases and literature--Québec (Province).
- Diseases and literature.
- National characteristics, French-Canadian, in literature.
- Diseases in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Genre:
- Libros electronicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London ; Chicago [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- A necessary second opinion on the national implications of an epidemic of sick literary characters.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Sick Readings/Reading Sickness
- 1 The Nation as Body
- 2 Diagnostic Allegories
- 3 Sick Doctors
- 4 Strong Medicine
- 5 The Normal Pathographical
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780773598867
- 0773598863
- 9780773598850
- 0773598855
- OCLC:
- 922834130
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