How Long to Read Reimagining Illness

How Long Does it Take to Read Reimagining Illness?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 11 minutes to read Reimagining Illness by Heather Meek

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common yet often devastating illnesses. In Reimagining Illness Heather Meek reads works by six major eighteenth-century women writers – Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Burney – alongside contemporaneous medical texts to explore conditions such as hysteria, melancholy, smallpox, maternity, consumption, and breast cancer. In novels, poems, letters, and journals, these writers drew on their learning and literary skill as they engaged with and revised male-dominated medical discourse. Their works provide insight into the experience of suffering and interrogate accepted theories of women’s bodies and minds. In ways relevant both then and now, these women demonstrate how illness might be at once a bodily condition and a malleable construct full of ideological meaning and imaginative possibility. Reimagining Illness offers a new account of the vital period in medico-literary history between 1660 and 1815, revealing how the works of women writers not only represented the medicine of their time but also contributed meaningfully to its developments.

How long is Reimagining Illness?

Reimagining Illness by Heather Meek is 191 pages long, and a total of 47,941 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Reimagining Illness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 21 minutes to read Reimagining Illness aloud.

What Reading Level is Reimagining Illness?

Reimagining Illness is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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