{"product_id":"9781350377974","title":"Health Resort in Modern European Literature Transnational Trajectories","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHealth Resort in Modern European Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTransnational Trajectories\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHenrike Schmidt | Astrid Köhler\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiction \/ World Literature \/ Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Health Resort in Modern European Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on theorists such as Barthes, Deleuze and Foucault, Henrike Schmidt and Astrid Köhler 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe 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).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAstrid Köhler\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of German Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her research interests are divided between the cultural history of late 18th \u0026amp; 19th Century Europe and contemporary German Literature on the other. With regard to the former, she has published on salons and other forms of sociability as well as on public rituals and festivities, literary journals and prose fiction of the period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenrike Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e is Private Lecturer at the Peter Szondi-Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She specializes in Slavic cultural and literary history (Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish literature). She also deals with topics of media representation, especially in digital and social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350377974\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e280\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14.08\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936349978764,"sku":"9781350377974","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e5731b09-54d6-4d17-a014-e8e09ac3a8ea.jpg?v=1786018333","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350377974","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}