The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / Tabitha Sparks.
Pubblicazione:
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2009.
Descrizione fisica:
177 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Doctoring the marriage plot: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch 2. Textual healing: George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart 3. Marital malpractice at mid-century: Braddon's The doctor's wife and Gaskell's Wives and daughters 4. Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity: Wilkie Collin's Armadale and Heart and science 5. New women, avenging doctors: gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen 6. The fair physician: female doctors and the late-century marriage plot. Conclusion: the overstimulated nerve ceases to respond: Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism. Bibliography. Index
