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Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle

Title
Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.
Author
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.

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Description
xiv, 207 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Quacks and quackery in literature
  • Physicians in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Contents
Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein -- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray.
Call Number
JFE 12-3612
ISBN
  • 9780821419908 (hc : acid-free paper)
  • 0821419900 (hc : acid-free paper)
  • 9780821444061 (electronic)
  • 0821444069 (electronic)
LCCN
2011053206
OCLC
YBP 2011053206
Author
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Title
Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.
Imprint
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-3612
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