Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara

Crosby, Sara L.

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2018

257

Dura

Inglês

9783319964621

15 a 20 dias

488


ebook

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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.
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American women writers;nineteenth century women writers;literature and science;literature and medicine;Harriet Beecher Stowe;Uncle Tom's Cabin;women doctors;women healers;poisonous women;antebellum American writing;female archetypes in literature