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Jessee, Margaret Jay,
Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture / Margaret Jay Jessee . - New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 . - xvi, 92 p ; 23 cm - Routledge focus on literature . .
Includes bibliographical references and index
An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White nationalism and the abortionist -- The corporeal legacy of the abortionist -- "Truly Womanly Work": sentiment and reform fiction -- Absorbing the terror: the idealized woman physician
"Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "Murderess," "hag," "She-Devil," "the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell"-these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensation fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy"--
9781032227122
American literature
19th century
Women physicians
Abortion
USA
PS217.W64 / J47 2022
813.5093556 / J582
Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture / Margaret Jay Jessee . - New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 . - xvi, 92 p ; 23 cm - Routledge focus on literature . .
Includes bibliographical references and index
An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White nationalism and the abortionist -- The corporeal legacy of the abortionist -- "Truly Womanly Work": sentiment and reform fiction -- Absorbing the terror: the idealized woman physician
"Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "Murderess," "hag," "She-Devil," "the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell"-these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensation fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy"--
9781032227122
American literature
19th century
Women physicians
Abortion
USA
PS217.W64 / J47 2022
813.5093556 / J582