Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara

AvSara L. Crosby

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-21
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:361 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor:257
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030071974

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Sara L. Crosby is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University at Marion, USA, and author of Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America (2016).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner.- Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Homeopathic Poisoner.- Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb’s Antidote to the Tom Shows.- Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E. D. E. N. Southworth and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Pathological Poisoner.- Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman.- Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and the Lingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner.