The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices /
Following the decline of the marriage plot in Victorian novels by a range of novelists, including Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George MacDonald, and Bram Stoker, Tabitha Sparks argues that a narrative's stance towards scientific reason is revealed in the figure of the doc...
| Основен автор: | Sparks, Tabitha. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2009.
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Doctor in the Victorian novel. |
Съдържание:
- Doctoring the marriage plot : Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch
- Textual healing : George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart
- Medical malpractice at mid-century : Braddon's The doctor's wife and Gaskell's Wives and daughters
- Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity : Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and science
- New women, avenging doctors : Gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen
- The "fair physician" : female doctors and the late-century marriage plot
- Conclusion : "the overstimulated nerve ceases to respond" : Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism.