This book is a study of depictions of Health and Sickness in the Early American novel, 1787-1808.
These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward Social Affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic..
This book is a study of depictions of Health and Sickness in the Early American novel, 1787-1808