Description
| Product ID: | 9781032227122 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Literature |
| Title: | Female Physicians in American Literature |
| Subtitle: | Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Margaret Jay Jessee |
| Page Count: | 108 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This volume 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-31 |
