Doctoring the novel
Subtitle: medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle
By: Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780821419908; 9780821444061
Subjects: Physicians in literature; Quacks and quackery in literature; Literature and medicine; English fiction; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery; title: Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein; title: Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House; title: Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette; title: Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale; title: The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray.