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Doctoring the novel [electronic resource] : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.

Summary:

If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Little Do

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  • ISBN: 0821444069 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780821444061 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 207 p.)
  • Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.

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General Note:
OldControl:muse9780821444061
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein -- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray.
Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and medicine.
Physicians in literature.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physicians.
Physicians in literature.
Quacks and quackery.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Literature.
Great Britain.
Genre: History
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.


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