The Health Resort in Modern European Literature

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...

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Charles Dickens
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Walter Scott
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social microcosm
utopia
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European body politics
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Paul Keller
Guy de Maupassant
Herman Hesse
Georges Simenon
Georgi Markov
Gore Verbinski
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intertextuality
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Walter Scott
spa town
social microcosm
utopia
dystopia
refuge
European body politics
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Paul Keller
Guy de Maupassant
Herman Hesse
Georges Simenon
Georgi Markov
Gore Verbinski
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