03159nam 2200685Ia 450 991080960320332120240505165148.01-315-61564-91-317-03541-01-317-03540-21-282-29517-997866122951710-7546-9640-5(CKB)1000000000799879(EBL)476429(OCoLC)464188180(SSID)ssj0000294185(PQKBManifestationID)11911229(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294185(PQKBWorkID)10302904(PQKB)10892196(Au-PeEL)EBL476429(CaPaEBR)ebr10331439(CaONFJC)MIL229517(MiAaPQ)EBC476429(EXLCZ)99100000000079987920090326d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe doctor in the Victorian novel family practices /Tabitha Sparks1st ed.Farnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub.20091 online resource (187 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6802-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PlotConclusion - "The Overstimulated Nerve Ceases to Respond": Arthur Conan Doyle's Medical ModernismBibliography; IndexFollowing 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 that a narrative's stance towards scientific reason is revealed in the figure of the doctor. Novels with romantic doctors deny the authority of empiricism, while those with clinically minded doctors uphold the determining logic of science and threaten the novel's romantic plot.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPhysicians in literatureMedicine in literatureMarriage in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Physicians in literature.Medicine in literature.Marriage in literature.823.8093543823.8'093543-dc22Sparks Tabitha1625783MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809603203321The doctor in the Victorian novel3961478UNINA