Gendered pathologies the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Archimedes, Sondra M. (-)
Formato: Tesis
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge 2005.
Colección:Literary criticism and cultural theory
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b18833287*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Derangements of the uterus and other mysteries
  • Science, gender, and the nineteenth century
  • Towards a discourse of perversion : female deviance, sibling incest, and the bourgeois family in Dickens's Hard times
  • Women, savages, and the body of Africa : Rider Haggard's She as biological narrative
  • Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied : Sue Bridehead, reproduction, and the disease of modern civilization
  • Afterword : female deviance in the twenty-first century : from Martha Stewart to Lynndie England.