Margaret Jay Jessee

Female Physicians in American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000554441
• Artikelnr.: 63128177

Autorenporträt

Margaret Jay Jessee, PhD (University of Arizona, 2012) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also Director of the Undergraduate Program. She guest edited a special issue of Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Theory, and Culture on medical women in 19th-century American literature and her essay "'Cutting Up Dead Babies': The Literary Legacy of the Woman Physician as Abortionist" appears in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her other work has appeared in The Journal of Modern Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, South Atlantic Review, and in various essay collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Woman Physician Character and Anglo-American Nationalism
Fearing the Woman Physician as Trope
Abortion and Nationalism
Chapter 1: An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White Nationalism and the
Abortionist
The Sensation of Madame Restell
Embodying the Abortionist
Chapter 2: The Corporeal Legacy of the Abortionist
Abortion and Melodrama
Sensation as White Supremacy
Chapter 3: "Truly Womanly Work": Sentiment and Reform Fiction
Radical Gender in the Social Problem Novel
The "Abominations" of the Woman Physician
Chapter 4: Absorbing the Terror: The Idealized Woman Physician
Curing White Male Nationality
The Woman Physician as Christ Figure
Conclusion: Curing the Sentimental Feminist with the "Doctress"
Genre and Gendered Medicine
Queering the Doctress
Affective Metanarratives

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Preface

Introduction: The Woman Physician Character and Anglo-American Nationalism



Fearing the Woman Physician as Trope

Abortion and Nationalism



Chapter 1: An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White Nationalism and the Abortionist



The Sensation of Madame Restell

Embodying the Abortionist



Chapter 2: The Corporeal Legacy of the Abortionist

Abortion and Melodrama

Sensation as White Supremacy

Chapter 3: "Truly Womanly Work": Sentiment and Reform Fiction



Radical Gender in the Social Problem Novel

The "Abominations" of the Woman Physician



Chapter 4: Absorbing the Terror: The Idealized Woman Physician



Curing White Male Nationality

The Woman Physician as Christ Figure



Conclusion: Curing the Sentimental Feminist with the "Doctress"



Genre and Gendered Medicine

Queering the Doctress

Affective Metanarratives