Doctoring the marriage plot : Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Textual healing : George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart -- Medical malpractice at mid-century : Braddon's The doctor's wife and Gaskell's Wives and daughters -- Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity : Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and science -- New women, avenging doctors : Gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen -- The "fair physician" : female doctors and the late-century marriage plot -- Conclusion : "the overstimulated nerve ceases to respond" : Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism.
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