Verfasst von:	Jessee, Margaret Jay [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Female physicians in American literature
Titelzusatz:	abortion in 19th-century literature and culture
Institutionen:	Taylor & Francis Group [Verlag]
Verf.angabe:	Margaret Jay Jessee
Verlagsort:	New York ; London
Verlag:	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Jahr:	2022
Umfang:	xvi, 92 Seiten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Routledge focus on literature
Fussnoten:	Literaturangaben
ISBN:	978-1-032-22712-2
	978-0-367-22843-9
Abstract:	"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 sensation 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"--
Schlagwörter:	(z)Geschichte 1800-1900    / (s)Frauenliteratur    / (s)Frauenroman    / (s)FrauMotiv    / (s)SchwangerschaftsabbruchMotiv    / (g)USA
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jessee, Margaret Jay: Female physicians in American literature. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. - 1 online resource (xvi, 92 pages)
Sach-SW:	Literary criticism
K10plus-PPN:	1776563158