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Autore |
Sparks Tabitha |
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Titolo |
The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / / Tabitha Sparks |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-61564-9 |
1-317-03541-0 |
1-317-03540-2 |
1-282-29517-9 |
9786612295171 |
0-7546-9640-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (187 p.) |
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823.8093543 |
823.8'093543-dc22 |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Physicians in literature |
Medicine in literature |
Marriage in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Doctoring the Marriage Plot: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch; 2 Textual Healing: George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart; 3 Marital Malpractice at Mid-Century: Braddon's The Doctor's Wife and Gaskell's Wives and Daughters; 4 Myopic Medicine and Far-Sighted Femininity: Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and Science; 5 New Women, Avenging Doctors: Gothic Medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen; 6 The "Fair Physician": Female Doctors and the Late-Century Marriage Plot |
Conclusion - "The Overstimulated Nerve Ceases to Respond": Arthur Conan Doyle's Medical ModernismBibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Following the decline of the marriage plot in Victorian novels by a range of novelists, including Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George MacDonald, and Bram Stoker, Tabitha Sparks argues |
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