Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara /
This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamor...
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Edice: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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| ISBN: | 9783319964638 |
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Obsah:
- 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.