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Author Pamboukian, Sylvia A

Title Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
Contents Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein -- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray
Summary If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Little Do
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Physicians in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
MEDICAL -- General.
English fiction
Literature and medicine
Physicians in literature
Quacks and quackery in literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011053206
ISBN 0821444069
9780821444061