In Quest of a Cure

Name: In Quest of a Cure
Author: Shuttleworth, Sally
ISBN: 9780198972440

Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

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ISBN: 9780198972440

Published: March 16, 2026

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pub. Country: United Kingdom

Format: Hardback

Pages: 528

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In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sally Shuttleworth analyses the lives and writings of literary invalids such Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Henry James, and Beatrice Harraden.

17 colour and 39 black-and-white illustrations

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