Female Physicians In American Literature: Abortion In 19Th-Century Literature And Culture (Routledge Focus On Literature)

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"--

• | Author: Margaret Jay Jessee
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 92 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1032227125
• | ISBN-13: 9781032227122