Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

The doctor in the Victorian novel [[electronic resource] ] : family practices / / Tabitha Sparks



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Sparks Tabitha Visualizza persona
Titolo: The doctor in the Victorian novel [[electronic resource] ] : family practices / / Tabitha Sparks Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., 2009
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 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.: 9910455271903321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui