Medicine and Women's Fiction
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Medicine and Women's Fiction
Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s
Benson James, Louise
Edinburgh University Press
03/2026
264
Dura
Inglês
9781399523080
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Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Treating the Hysterical Body
1. Nervous Narratives: Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853) and Mid-century Medical Men
2. Unruly Bodies: Rhoda Broughton's Nancy (1873) and Short Supernatural Fiction
3. Mental Monstrosities, Medical Women and Material Culture: Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893) and The Beth Book (1897)
4. Sexual Neuroses and Male Nerves: Lucas Malet's Wages of Sin (1891) and The Survivors (1923)
5. Medical Mythmaking, Modern Science and the Taboo: Djuna Barnes's Ryder (1928) and Nightwood (1936)
Conclusion: 'How Shall I Keep Well?'
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Treating the Hysterical Body
1. Nervous Narratives: Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853) and Mid-century Medical Men
2. Unruly Bodies: Rhoda Broughton's Nancy (1873) and Short Supernatural Fiction
3. Mental Monstrosities, Medical Women and Material Culture: Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893) and The Beth Book (1897)
4. Sexual Neuroses and Male Nerves: Lucas Malet's Wages of Sin (1891) and The Survivors (1923)
5. Medical Mythmaking, Modern Science and the Taboo: Djuna Barnes's Ryder (1928) and Nightwood (1936)
Conclusion: 'How Shall I Keep Well?'
Bibliography
Index
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Women; Gender; Fiction; Body; Disorder; Medicine; Victorian; Modernist
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Treating the Hysterical Body
1. Nervous Narratives: Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853) and Mid-century Medical Men
2. Unruly Bodies: Rhoda Broughton's Nancy (1873) and Short Supernatural Fiction
3. Mental Monstrosities, Medical Women and Material Culture: Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893) and The Beth Book (1897)
4. Sexual Neuroses and Male Nerves: Lucas Malet's Wages of Sin (1891) and The Survivors (1923)
5. Medical Mythmaking, Modern Science and the Taboo: Djuna Barnes's Ryder (1928) and Nightwood (1936)
Conclusion: 'How Shall I Keep Well?'
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Treating the Hysterical Body
1. Nervous Narratives: Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853) and Mid-century Medical Men
2. Unruly Bodies: Rhoda Broughton's Nancy (1873) and Short Supernatural Fiction
3. Mental Monstrosities, Medical Women and Material Culture: Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893) and The Beth Book (1897)
4. Sexual Neuroses and Male Nerves: Lucas Malet's Wages of Sin (1891) and The Survivors (1923)
5. Medical Mythmaking, Modern Science and the Taboo: Djuna Barnes's Ryder (1928) and Nightwood (1936)
Conclusion: 'How Shall I Keep Well?'
Bibliography
Index
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