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The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices
- Title
- The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / Tabitha Sparks.
- Author
- Sparks, Tabitha.
- Publication
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-446 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 177 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Doctoring the marriage plot : Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Textual healing : George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart -- Medical malpractice at mid-century : Braddon's The doctor's wife and Gaskell's Wives and daughters -- Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity : Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and science -- New women, avenging doctors : Gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen -- The "fair physician" : female doctors and the late-century marriage plot -- Conclusion : "the overstimulated nerve ceases to respond" : Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-446
- ISBN
- 9780754668022 (alk. paper)
- 0754668029 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009011695
- OCLC
- YBP 2009011695
- Author
- Sparks, Tabitha.
- Title
- The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / Tabitha Sparks.
- Imprint
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-446