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Doctoring the novel

Pamboukian, Sylvia A.

Doctoring the novel medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / [electronic resource] : Sylvia A. Pamboukian. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: False professions: defining orthodoxy and quackery -- Orthodoxy or quackery? anatomy in Frankenstein -- Doctoring in Little Dorrit and Bleak House -- Legerdemain and the physician in Charlotte Bronte's Villette -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- Conclusion: The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in Vernon Galbray.

9780821444061


Physicians in literature.
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PR890.M42 / P36 2012

823/.92093561