Hello again, everyone! Hope you are all doing well
As some of you may know, I have decided to "follow my heart" (pardon the pun) and attempt to do a PhD. Don't ask me to explain exactly what it's going to be about (I can't yet!) but essentially it's something along the lines of representations of heart failure in literature and whether illness can be argued to be positive/preferable to perfect health. I'm currently looking for any representations of heart disease, particularly heart failure, in literature (fiction and/or biography) and just wondered if any of you folks had read or heard of anything along those lines? The books don't need to be overtly ABOUT heart failure, even books featuring a character who has or appears to have a heart condition would be useful to me. Thanks in advance and brace yourself for lots of requests for help over the next few months/years!
Laura x
I have read hundreds, possibly thousands, of books and never read about a character with heart disease.
Yep, they are hard to find, which is interesting in itself!
Eyes turned skyward by Rebecca Yarros. It's on good reads.
It's about a women who shares her dead sisters heart condition and is treated like delicate glass by her paren't sure. She is determined to fill her bucket wish though.
Hope it's helpful
Thanks, Vonnieruth, will check it out! Let me know if you think of any others
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/259...
I found found this a very interesting point - seems to be a number references online. See the link here for example.
Would love to see where this research takes you
Brilliant, thank you, will add this to my reading list. I'm just getting my proposal ready for funding applications at the moment, so it's very early days, but I imagine I'll be picking the forum's collective brain fairly regularly! If I get funding (or win the lottery, both equally likely probably 😬) I'll start PhD in 2019. Really enjoying all my reading so far, which bodes well! Thanks again