Medical women and Victorian fiction /
Swenson, Kristine,1966-
Columbia : University of Missouri Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.
English fiction
Literature and medicine
Women and literature
Women physicians in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Medicine in literature.