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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.
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Female Physicians in American Literature, Margaret Jay Jessee
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- Année de publication
- 2021
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Margaret Jay Jessee
- Éditeur
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publié
- 2021
- Format
- rigide
- ISBN10
- 0367228432
- ISBN13
- 9780367228439
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Cartes et voyages, Loisirs et maison, Voyage
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- 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.