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Doctoring the novel medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle

Title
Doctoring the novel [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (xiv, 207 p.)
Uniform Title
Doctoring the novel (Online)
Alternative Title
Doctoring the novel (Online)
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.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2011053206
OCLC
ssj0000611716
Author
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Title
Doctoring the novel [electronic resource] : 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.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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