| Description |
1 online resource (109 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Focus on Literature Ser |
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Routledge Focus on Literature Ser
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgments Page -- Preface Page -- Introduction: The Woman Physician Character and Anglo-American Nationalism -- Fearing the Woman Physician as Trope -- Abortion and Nationalism -- 1 An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White Nationalism and the Abortionist -- The Sensation of Madame Restell -- Embodying the Abortionist -- 2 The Corporeal Legacy of the Abortionist -- Abortion and Melodrama -- Sensation as White Supremacy -- 3 "Truly Womanly Work": Sentiment and Reform Fiction |
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Radical Gender in the Social Problem Novel -- The "Abominations" of the Woman Physician -- 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 -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000554397 |
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1000554392 |
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