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Author:

Tavera, Stephanie Peebles, author.

Title:

(P)rescription narratives : feminist medical fiction and the failure of American censorship / Stephanie Peebles Tavera

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Medical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Censorship--United States--History.
Disabilities in literature.
Women with disabilities in literature.
Women in literature.
Human body in literature.
Criticism.
History.
American fiction--Women authors.
Censorship.
Disabilities in literature.
Human body in literature.
Medical fiction, American.
Women in literature.
Women with disabilities in literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Contents:

Crip medicine: Environmental health and the matter of hysteria -- Listen for the new man: From narrative prosthesis to narrative medicine -- Kinetic medicine: Superposition of Black female subjectivity before the law -- Affective fear: Vulnerability and risk in anti-VD campaign counternarratives -- Conclusion: Medical theater: The birth of anti-lynching plays and reproductive justice.

Series:

Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture

ISBN:

147449319X
9781474493192

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1298383369

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)