In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

Author/Contributor(s):	Shuttleworth, Sally
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	05/26/2026
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.