Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (Routledge Focus on Literature)
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- Synopsis
- Female Physicians in American Literature 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. "Murderess," "hag," "She-Devil," "the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell"—these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensational fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 92 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000554441
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032227122, 9780367228446, 9780367228439
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 12/29/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Taylor & Francis. The right of Margaret Jay Jessee to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.