{"id":5765,"date":"2020-04-27T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:12:26","slug":"turning-to-literature-on-being-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/turning-to-literature-on-being-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning to literature On Being Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Dr Andrew Palmer turns to the novelist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) for some thoughts on how illness can transform our perceptions. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Woolf wrote ten novels \u2013 most famously,&nbsp;<em>Mrs Dalloway <\/em>(1925) and<em> To the Lighthouse <\/em>(1927); she was also a prolific writer of nonfiction, including&nbsp;the essay Dr Palmer discusses here: <em>On Being Ill <\/em>(1926).&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Expert Comment: Dr Andrew Palmer On Being Ill\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FalZB3HnYGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Dr Andrew Palmer is a Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/arts-and-humanities\/school-of-humanities\/school-of-humanities.aspx\">School of Humanities<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Andrew Palmer turns to the novelist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) for some thoughts on how illness can transform our perceptions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":5766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3073,1342,3902],"tags":[3358,3365,3469,3465],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-humanities","category-literature","category-research","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-illness","tag-virginia-woolf"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Jeanette Earl","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2020\/04\/Virginia-Woolf.jpg","postExcerpt":"Dr Andrew Palmer turns to the novelist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) for some thoughts on how illness can transform our perceptions. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/expertcomment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}