The Doctor In The Victorian Novel
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The Doctor in the Victorian Novel
Author | : Tabitha Sparks |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317035404 |
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With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel. As Victorians came to terms with the scientific revolution in medicine of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the novel's progressive distance from the conventions of the marriage plot can be indexed through a rising identification of the doctor with scientific empiricism. A narrative's stance towards scientific reason, Sparks argues, is revealed by the fictional doctor's relationship to the marriage plot. Thus, novels that feature romantic doctors almost invariably deny the authority of empiricism, as is the case in George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart. In contrast, works such as Wilkie Collins's Heart and Science, which highlight clinically minded or even sinister doctors, uphold the determining logic of science and, in turn, threaten the novel's romantic plot. By focusing on the figure of the doctor rather than on a scientific theme or medical field, Sparks emulates the Victorian novel's personalization of tropes and belief systems, using the realism associated with the doctor to chart the sustainability of the Victorian novel's central imaginative structure, the marriage plot. As the doctors Sparks examines increasingly stand in for the encroachment of empirical knowledge on a morally formulated artistic genre, their alienation from the marriage plot and its interrelated decline succinctly herald the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of Modernism.
The Doctor s Wife
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105010182736 |
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The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream
Author | : Dean Jobb |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781443453349 |
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The chilling true-crime story of the Victorian era’s deadliest doctor “When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world’s most famous fictional detective appeared in print in the Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was stalking and murdering women in London’s downtrodden Lambeth neighbourhood. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream had been a suspect in the deaths of two women in Canada, and had killed as many as four people in Chicago before he arrived in London in 1891 and began using pills laced with strychnine to kill prostitutes. The Lambeth Poisoner, as he was dubbed in the press, became one of the most prolific serial killers in history. In this fascinating book, Dean Jobb reveals how bungled investigations, corrupt officials and failed prosecutions allowed Cream to evade detection or freed him to kill, again and again. The first complete account of Dr. Cream’s crimes and his many victims explores how the stifling morality and hypocrisy of the Victorian era allowed this monster to poison vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help. It offers an inside account of Scotland Yard’s desperate search for a killer as brazen and efficient as Jack the Ripper.
Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture
Author | : Louise Penner,Tabitha Sparks |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780822981893 |
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This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction. This is an interdisciplinary study involving public health, cultural studies, the history of medicine, literature and the theatre, providing new insights into Victorian culture and society.
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Author | : Jessica Cox |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137471727 |
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Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.
Art and Society in the Victorian Novel
Author | : Colin Gibson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1989-01-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781349196722 |
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Doctor Thorne
Author | : Anthony Trollope |
Publsiher | : London : Chapman and Hall |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWPAR6 |
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The New Man Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
Author | : Tara MacDonald |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317317791 |
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By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing.