Titre :	Gendered pathologies : the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Sondra M. Archimedes, Auteur
Editeur :	Routledge
Année de publication :	2012
Collection :	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Importance :	202 p.
Format :	23 cm.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-415-64795-3
Langues :	Anglais
Mots-clés :	English fiction  -History and criticism  Human body in literature  Literature and medicine  Women and literature  Sex role in literature  Medicine in literature  Women in literature  Great Britain  History  19th century.
Note de contenu :	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.

Gendered pathologies : the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel [texte imprimé] / Sondra M. Archimedes, Auteur . - United Kingdom : Routledge, 2012 . - 202 p. ; 23 cm.. - (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) .
ISBN : 978-0-415-64795-3
Langues : Anglais

Mots-clés :

English fiction  -History and criticism  Human body in literature  Literature and medicine  Women and literature  Sex role in literature  Medicine in literature  Women in literature  Great Britain  History  19th century.

Note de contenu :

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.