Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara /

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara /

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 metamor...

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Main Author: Crosby, Sara L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Subjects:
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
History of Science.
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