The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / / Tabitha Sparks
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (187 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.8093543 |
| 823.8'093543-dc22 | |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Physicians in literature | |
| Medicine in literature | |
| Marriage in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The doctor in the Victorian novel |
| ISBN: | 1-315-61564-9 |
| 1-317-03541-0 | |
| 1-317-03540-2 | |
| 1-282-29517-9 | |
| 9786612295171 | |
| 0-7546-9640-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809603203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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