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Female Physicians in American Literature - Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Female Physicians in American Literature - Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
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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 sensational 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.
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