Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara /

• Main Author: Crosby, Sara L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature-Philosophy.; History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Literary Theory.; History of Science.

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamor...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner
• Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Homeopathic Poisoner
• Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb's Antidote to the Tom Shows
• Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E. D. E. N. Southworth and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's Pathological Poisoner
• Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman
• Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and the Lingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner.