Literary Studies and Well-Being

<br/>The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself.<br/><br/>During the past twenty years much admirable work in the health humanities has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work-the worldly work-of healthcare. Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering. <i>Literary Studies and Well-Being</i> turns this inside out by examining the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline of literary studies in new ways. <br/><br/><i>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 The University of Oklahoma.</i><br/>