Really Sick in Bleak House

By Susan E. Cook (Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH) Susan Cook is Assistant Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. She writes about Victorian literature and visual culture. Follow Susan @Susan_E_Cook. I should begin this post with a confession: I am a hypochondriac.  When faced with even the most innocuous medical anomaly, my mind goes to the worst-case scenario.  Discovering Internet medical advice sites is perhaps one of the worst

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