The doctor in the Victorian novel
Subtitle: family practices
By: Tabitha Sparks.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780754668022
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Physicians in literature; Medicine in literature; Marriage in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Doctoring the marriage plot : Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch; title: Marital malpractice at the mid-century : Mary Braddon's The doctor's wife and Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and daughters; title: Textual healing : George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart; title: Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity : Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and science; title: New women, avenging doctors : gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen; title: The "fair physician" : female doctors and the late-century marriage plot; title: "The overstimulated nerve ceases to respond" : Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism.