Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture /: abortion in 19th-century literature and culture. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture /: abortion in 19th-century literature and culture. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture
- Further Information:
- Note: Margaret Jay Jessee.
- Authors:
- Jessee, Margaret Jay
- Contents:
- Preface Introduction: The Woman Physician Character and Anglo-American Nationalism Fearing the Woman Physician as Trope Abortion and Nationalism Chapter 1: An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White Nationalism and the Abortionist The Sensation of Madame Restell Embodying the Abortionist Chapter 2: The Corporeal Legacy of the Abortionist Abortion and Melodrama Sensation as White Supremacy Chapter 3: "Truly Womanly Work": Sentiment and Reform Fiction Radical Gender in the Social Problem Novel The "Abominations" of the Woman Physician Chapter 4: Absorbing the Terror: The Idealized Woman Physician Curing White Male Nationality The Woman Physician as Christ Figure Conclusion: Curing the Sentimental Feminist with the "Doctress" Genre and Gendered Medicine Queering the Doctress Affective Metanarratives
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 813.5093556
Abortion in literature
Women physicians in literature
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000554441
9781000554397
9780367228446 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367228439
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