Abstract:Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill (1926) is the first published essay in English on illness in literature. Historically neglected, in recent years rising popular and academic interest in the intersection of illness and the arts has led to a rediscovery of sorts, exemplified by its republication by Paris Press in 2002 and 2012. And yet, in spite of this surge in attention, contemporary writers and scholars routinely undervalue the scope of Woolf's argument about illness and its literary representation. By placing On Being Ill within a wider context of writing and reading illness in the modern and contemporary period, my study opens up hitherto unexplored dimensions of the essay, arguing for a more expansive understanding of the critical and creative interventions it seeks to make, and a new appreciation of its relevance to present day debates around the meaning and value of illness in literature.

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草率阅读：重新思考弗吉尼亚伍尔夫关于生病的看法

摘要：弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 (Virginia Woolf) 的《论生病》(On Being Ill，1926 年) 是第一篇关于文学疾病的英文论文。历史上被忽视，近年来人们对疾病与艺术的交叉点日益增长的学术兴趣导致了各种重新发现，例如巴黎出版社在 2002 年和 2012 年的再版。 然而，尽管关注度激增，当代作家和学者经常低估伍尔夫关于疾病及其文学表现的论点的范围。通过将《生病》放在现代和当代写作和阅读疾病的更广泛背景下，我的研究开辟了这篇文章迄今为止尚未探索的维度，主张对其试图进行的批判性和创造性干预有更广泛的理解，