书目名称 | Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
副标题 | From Poisoners to Do |
编辑 | Sara L. Crosby |
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概述 | Contributes to scholarship on American women writers.Interrogates representations of women in literature and culture in the nineteenth century.Examines Harriet Beecher Stowe’s role in undermining acce |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
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描述 | .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. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in .Uncle Tom’s Cabin. where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly “medicalized” poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or “vampires” imagined by E. D. E. N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D. W. Griffith. . . |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | American women writers; nineteenth century women writers; literature and science; literature and medici |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96463-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-07197-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-96463-8Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
issn_series | 2634-6435 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |