Tabitha Sparks

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

Family Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

Following the decline of the marriage plot in Victorian novels by a range of novelists, including Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George MacDonald, and Bram Stoker, Tabitha Sparks argues that a narrative's stance towards scientific reason is revealed in the figure of the doctor. Novels with romantic doctors deny the authority of empiricism, while those with clinically minded doctors uphold the determining logic of science and threaten the novel's romantic plot.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781138275409
• ISBN-10: 1138275409
• Artikelnr.: 57039327

Autorenporträt

Tabitha Sparks, Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, specializes in the nineteenth-century British novel. Her work has appeared in book collections, and journals including Cultural Studies and the Journal of Narrative Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Doctoring the marriage plot: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch
Textual healing: George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart
Marital malpractice at mid-century: Braddon's The Doctor's Wife and Gaskell's Wives and Daughters
Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity: Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and Science
New women, avenging doctors: gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen
The 'fair physician': female doctors and the late-century marriage plot
Conclusion - 'The overstimulated nerve ceases to respond': Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism
Bibliography
Index.