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The Health Resort in Modern European Literature : Transnational Trajectories - Dr Henrike  Schmidt

The Health Resort in Modern European Literature

Transnational Trajectories

By: Dr Henrike Schmidt, Professor Astrid Kohler

Hardcover | 20 February 2025

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This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Most of the existing body of academic work on the subject is concerned with either the classic spa novel or sanatorium narratives, and focuses on distinct national literatures, selected canonical texts, and particular themes. Contrary to this convention The Health Resort in Modern European Literature covers all types of health resort texts and sees them as part of a "transnational resort narrative" that covers the whole of Europe. Its uniquely broad corpus goes beyond the famous English, French, German and Russian novels and includes work in all genres, by female and male authors, from high literature and popular culture, in less studied languages such as Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Polish, Swedish or Ukrainian, right up to the present day.

Drawing on theorists such as Barthes, Deleuze and Foucault, Henrike Schmidt and Astrid Kohler compellingly argue that the literary health resort represents a social microcosm that responds to and reflects historical developments in special ways. Being an ''other place'' where time and space are configured differently, it has both utopian and dystopian potential, while its intertextual interconnectedness enables it to interrogate assumptions and discourses not just about sickness and health, but also about European society in its different iterations.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).

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