Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture

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Female physicians in American literature : abortion in 19th-century literature and culture

Margaret Jay Jessee

（Routledge focus on literature）（Routledge focus）

Routledge, 2022

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Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

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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 sensational 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.

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Preface Introduction: The Woman Physician Character and Anglo-American Nationalism Fearing the Woman Physician as Trope Abortion and Nationalism Chapter 1: An "Atrocious Foreign Woman": White Nationalism and the Abortionist The Sensation of Madame Restell Embodying the Abortionist Chapter 2: The Corporeal Legacy of the Abortionist Abortion and Melodrama Sensation as White Supremacy Chapter 3: "Truly Womanly Work": Sentiment and Reform Fiction Radical Gender in the Social Problem Novel The "Abominations" of the Woman Physician Chapter 4: Absorbing the Terror: The Idealized Woman Physician Curing White Male Nationality The Woman Physician as Christ Figure Conclusion: Curing the Sentimental Feminist with the "Doctress" Genre and Gendered Medicine Queering the Doctress Affective Metanarratives

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