In Quest of a Cure

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In Quest of a Cure

Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

Shuttleworth, Sally

Oxford University Press

02/2026

528

Dura

Inglês

9780198972440

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction
Part I. Mentone
1: Bodies and Climates
2: Invalid Lives
Part II. Davos
3: Winter in Davos
4: Robert Louis Stevenson: Itinerant Invalid
PartIII. Davos at the Fin de Siecle
5: Malingering Microbes and Winter Sports
6: Nervous Afflictions and Modernity: Davos Fictions
7: Revolving Huts, Open-Air Schools, and the Rise of the English Sanatorium
Part IV. Menton, Davos, and Modernism
8: Katherine Mansfield and Her 'stray dog'
9: Llewelyn Powys: The Unconquered Worm
10: Invalids on High: The Magic Mountain
Conclusion