| Description |
1 online resource (177 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Doctoring the marriage plot : Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Textual healing : George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart -- Medical 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Physicians in literature.
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Medicine in literature.
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Marriage in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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Marriage in literature. (OCoLC)fst01010607
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Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167
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Physicians in literature. (OCoLC)fst01062957
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sparks, Tabitha. Doctor in the Victorian novel. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754668022 (DLC) 2009011695 (OCoLC)317697839 |
| ISBN |
9780754696407 (electronic bk.) |
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0754696405 (electronic bk.) |
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