02863nam 2200589Ia 450 991079026340332120230801223249.00-8214-4406-9(CKB)2670000000187142(EBL)1762849(OCoLC)787846305(SSID)ssj0000611716(PQKBManifestationID)11374566(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611716(PQKBWorkID)10667124(PQKB)10676812(MiAaPQ)EBC1762849(MdBmJHUP)muse17787(Au-PeEL)EBL1762849(CaPaEBR)ebr10539256(EXLCZ)99267000000018714220120123d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDoctoring the novel[electronic resource] medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle /Sylvia A. PamboukianAthens Ohio University Pressc20121 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1990-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Little DoEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and medicineGreat BritainHistory19th centuryQuacks and quackery in literaturePhysicians in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and medicineHistoryQuacks and quackery in literature.Physicians in literature.823/.92093561Pamboukian Sylvia A1153868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790263403321Doctoring the novel3830449UNINA