SOURCE: Banks, Joanne Trautmann. “Death Labors.” In Literature and Medicine: Volume Nine, Fictive Ills: Literary Perspectives on Wounds and Diseases, edited by Peter W. Graham and Elizabeth Sewell, pp. 162-71. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
In the following essay, Banks compares the portrayal of illness in Tolstoy's novella and Tillie Olsen's “Tell Me a Riddle.”
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