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...Miriam Bailin © 1989 University of Washington 1987 “VARIETIES OF PAIN” THE VICTORIAN SICKROOM AND BRONTE’S SHIRLEY By MIRLAMBAILIN There is scarcely a Victorian narrative without its ailing...

... 3 to a sickroom, for example, Rosenblatt quickly concludes the paragraph: “In the aftermath of turbulence, the Miltonic bard takes one back to a time before suffering, human or divine, became necessary and to a place of clarity and repose” (7 1 ) . Left as a troublesome declaration...

... are unclear. Open- ing the book’s second chapter by comparing book 3 to a sickroom, for example, Rosenblatt quickly concludes the paragraph: “In the aftermath of turbulence, the Miltonic bard takes one back to a time before suffering, human or divine, became necessary and to a place of clarity...

... license is concerned, is outdone—by Mary Forrester’s reclamation of Helen’s brother Lord Beaufort (cousin to Colonel Beaufort), as well as by Teviot’s moral rebirth. The latter’s domestication is revealingly effected in a Victorian sickroom scene that clearly illustrates the novel’s retelling...

...” into Troilus’ supposed sickroom (3.59), and the gesture foreshadows his later entrance into Criseyde’s bedroom with her would-be lover in tow (3.742): the go-between proba- bly intends the comedy of this symmetrical pattern, even if he is playing for an audience of only one-himself. The episode...

.... Victorian sickroom fiction reflects this split.23 Male protagonists such as Pip in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861) experience catharsis in sickness, which restores moral health, while sentimental- ized somatic decline is often reserved for women and children. Critics speak of the figure...

... about letters getting through-that is, being delivered-now she ceases to write because she knows her letters are not “getting through,” even though they are known to be delivered. The prison mentality reasserts itself in Clarissa’s new confinement to her sickroom; her next prison, the coffin...

...” is paralleled in this sickly boy, who “didn’t much want to do anything” (p. 83). The doctor-another version of Dr. Holmes or Dr. Bradshaw in Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dallowuy-had ordered him to give up the violin, to shun excitement, and above all to avoid “inti- macy.” But love invades the sickroom...