Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle /

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If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2012.
Sujets:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et médecine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecins dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
MEDICAL > General.
English fiction
Literature and medicine
Physicians in literature
Quacks and quackery in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery
  • Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein
  • Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House
  • Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette
  • Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale
  • The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray.

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