Medical women and Victorian fiction

Swenson, Kristine, 1966-

Medical women and Victorian fiction [electronic resource] / Kristine Swenson. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005. - ix, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.

Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2009.
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English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women physicians in literature.


Electronic books.

PR878.M42 / S94 2005eb

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