The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices

The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / Tabitha Sparks.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sparks, Tabitha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Physicians in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Marriage in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Marriage in literature
Medicine in literature
Physicians in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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