Gendered pathologies : the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel /
Archimedes, Sondra M.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2005.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p.185-196) and index.
Introduction : "Derangements of the uterus" and other mysteries -- Science, gender, and the nineteenth century -- Towards a discourse of perversion : female deviance, sibling incest, and the bourgeois family in Dickens's Hard times -- Women, savages, and the body of Africa : Rider Haggard's She as biological narrative -- "Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied" : Sue Bridehead, reproduction, and the disease of "modern civilization" -- Afterword : female deviance in the twenty-first century : from Martha Stewart to Lynndie England.
English fiction
Human body in literature.
Literature and medicine
Women and literature
Sex role in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Women in literature.