Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature : From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara /: From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sara L. Crosby.
• Authors: Crosby, Sara L
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner.- Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe's HomeopathicPoisoner.-Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb's Antidote to the Tom Shows.-Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E. D. E. N. Southworth andDr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's Pathological Poisoner.-Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, andThomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman.-Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and theLingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Science -- History; Literary theory; History of science; Literature, Modern-19th century; Literature-Philosophy; History; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319964638
• Related ISBNs: 9783319964621
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