Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-96462-1 (ISBN)
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).
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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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
Zusatzinfo | XVII, 257 p. 4 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 488 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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Schlagworte | american women writers • antebellum American writing • female archetypes in literature • Harriet Beecher Stowe • literature and medicine • Literature and Science • nineteenth century women writers • poisonous women • Uncle Tom's Cabin • women doctors • women healers |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-96462-3 / 3319964623 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-96462-1 / 9783319964621 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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