Medical women and Victorian fiction
By: Kristine Swenson.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Women physicians in literature.; Physicians in literature.; Medicine in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical women old and new; title: Angels of mercy; title: Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse; title: Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor; title: The new woman doctor novel; title: Medical women and imperial fiction.