Rash Reading
Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15014111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Pett (0000-0002-1882-509X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-66 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature and medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0278-9671 • E-ISSN: 1080-6571 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lm.2019.0001 |
| PMID | 31402342 |
| OpenAlex | W2968773608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill (1926) is the first published essay in English on illness in literature. Historically neglected, in recent years rising popular and academic interest in the intersection of illness and the arts has led to a rediscovery of sorts, exemplified by its republication by Paris Press in 2002 and 2012. And yet, in spite of this surge in attention, contemporary writers and scholars routinely undervalue the scope of Woolf's argument about illness and its literary representation. By placing On Being Ill within a wider context of writing and reading illness in the modern and contemporary period, my study opens up hitherto unexplored dimensions of the essay, arguing for a more expansive understanding of the critical and creative interventions it seeks to make, and a new appreciation of its relevance to present day debates around the meaning and value of illness in literature
Aesthetics · Art · Critical reading · Epistemology · Expansive · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Empathy and Medical Education · History · Law · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy
FractureAdventures of a broken body
Illness as Narrative
Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War
Malaria and the Revision of Daisy Miller
Exposing the Nerves of Language
Overwhelming the Medium
The Unruly Text and the Rule of Literature
Of Bodies, Families, and Communities
Can We Resurrect Apollo
Confined to Bed
Begin with a Text
In defence of utility
View from the Sickroom
The flight of the mind
Pathographies
Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660-1820
Reading for Health
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |