The Victorian Novel of Adulthood

In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction.

Reading works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, John Henry Newman, and Virginia Woolf, Rainof exposes the little-discussed theological underpinnings of plot and situates the novel of maturity in intellectual and religious history, notably the Oxford Movement. Purgatory, a subject hotly debated in the period, becomes a guiding metaphor for midlife adventure in secular fiction. Rainof discusses theological models of gradual maturation, thus directing readers' attention away from evolutionary theory and geology, and offers a new historical framework for understanding Victorian interest in slow and deliberate change.

Auteur

Rebecca Rainof is an associate professor of English at the Catholic University of America. Her work has appeared in such journals as SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 and Victorian Poetry.

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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations. Foreword by Baroness Greengross. Preface. 1. Introduction. Rhidian Hughes. Part 1. Types of Restraint, Patterns and Trends. 2. Physical Restraint and Medical Intervention. David Evans, Senior Lecturer and Program Director, University of Adelaide, Australia. 3. Covert Medication and Chemical Restraint. Carmel M Hughes, Chair in Primary Care Pharmacy, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland and Kate L Lapane, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University. Part 2. Perspectives Across Health and Social Care. 4. Pennsylvania's Non-Restraint Approach to Psychiatric Care and Services. Gregory M. Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Allentown State Hospital, Pennsylvania, Donna Ashbridge, Chief Executive Officer, Danville State Hospital, Pennsylvania, Aidan Altenor, Director, Bureau of Community and Hospital Operations, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and Robert H. Davis, Associate Medical Director, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Pennsylvania. 5. Restraint: The US Nursing Home Perspective. Beryl D. Goldman, Director, Kendal Outreach, Pennsylvania, Joan Ferlo Todd, Senior Nurse Consultant , US Food and Drug Administration, Janet Davis, Activities Director, Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Initiative and Karen Russell, Regional Director, Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Initiative. 6. Ethical Dilemmas in Maintaining Enteral Feeding: The Use of Hand-Control Mittens. Jane Williams, Consultant Nurse in Stroke Care, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK. 7. Do We Need Drugs? Strategies to Reduce the Over-Prescription of Drugs in a Care Home Supporting People with Dementia. 8. The Therapy of Companionship. Jim Ellis. 9. Health and Safety Perspectives. Stephen Clarke. 10. Human Rights Perspectives. Rhidian Hughes. Part 3. Issues and Innovations. 11. Clinical-Ethical Considerations on the Use of Physical Restraint. Chris Gastmans, Professor of Medical Ethics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and Secretary General, European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics (EACME). 12. Changing Restraint Use: Discourses in Restraint. Kate Irving, Lecturer in Nursing, Dublin City University, Ireland. 13. Therapeutic Approaches and De-Escalation Techniques. Suparna Madan, Geriatric Psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Pat Rowe, Geriatric Mental Health Consultant, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 14. Wander-Walking and People with Dementia. Jan Dewing, Visiting Professor in Aged Care and Practice Development, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, Visiting Fellow, Northumbria University, UK, and Heather Wilkinson, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships and Research Director for the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. 15. Preventing Falls and Avoiding Restraint. Samuel R. Nyman, Co-Editor, Generations Review, The British Society of Gerontology and David Oliver, Consultant Physician, Royal Berkshire Hospital and Visiting Professor of Medicine for Older People, City University, London. 16. Using Evidence-Based Knowledge to Avoid Physical Restraint. Sascha Köpke, Senior Researcher, University of Hamburg Unit of Health Sciences and Education, Gabriele Meyer, Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, University of Witten/Herdecke Institute of Nursing Research, Anja Gerlach, Research Fellow, University of Hamburg Unit of Health Sciences and Education, and Antonie Haut, Research Fellow, University of Witten/Herdecke Institute of Nursing Research, Germany. 17. Reducing Restraint: The Benefits of Education and Training. Ingelin Testad, Director, Centre for Research, Stavanger Teaching Nursing Home, Norway and Dag Aarsland, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway. Selected Bibliography. Afterword by Barbara Pointon, Ambassador, Alzheimer's Society and 'for dementia'. About the Contributors. Index.