LEADER 03159nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910809603203321 005 20240505165148.0 010 $a1-315-61564-9 010 $a1-317-03541-0 010 $a1-317-03540-2 010 $a1-282-29517-9 010 $a9786612295171 010 $a0-7546-9640-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000799879 035 $a(EBL)476429 035 $a(OCoLC)464188180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000294185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11911229 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10302904 035 $a(PQKB)10892196 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476429 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331439 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL229517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476429 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000799879 100 $a20090326d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe doctor in the Victorian novel $efamily practices /$fTabitha Sparks 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate Pub.$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (187 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-6802-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aConclusion - "The Overstimulated Nerve Ceases to Respond": Arthur Conan Doyle's Medical ModernismBibliography; Index 330 $aFollowing 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhysicians in literature 606 $aMedicine in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhysicians in literature. 615 0$aMedicine in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 676 $a823.8093543 676 $a823.8'093543-dc22 700 $aSparks$b Tabitha$01625783 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809603203321 996 $aThe doctor in the Victorian novel$93961478 997 $aUNINA