Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvSara L. Crosby

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This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-01
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt473 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor257
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319964621

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Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner.- Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Homeopathic Poisoner.- Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb’s Antidote to the Tom Shows.- Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E. D. E. N. Southworth and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Pathological Poisoner.- Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman.- Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and the Lingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner.