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Medical women and Victorian fiction [electronic resource] / Kristine Swenson.

By: Swenson, Kristine, 1966-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005Description: ix, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Medicine in literature | Physicians in literature | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Women physicians in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.8093561 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.

Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.