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Author:
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Title:
Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.
Publisher:
Ohio University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xiv, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Quacks and quackery in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Contents:
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 Brontèˆ's 'Villette' -- Poisons and the poisonous in Wilkie Collins's 'Armadale' -- The quackery of Arthur Conan Doyle -- The in-laws: orthodoxy and quackery in 'Vernon Galbray'.
ISBN:
0821444069 (electronic)
9780821444061 (electronic)
0821419900 (hc : acid-free paper)
9780821419908 (hc : acid-free paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)768800633
LCCN:
2011053206
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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