Following the decline of the marriage plot in Victorian novels by a range of novelists, including Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George MacDonald, and Bram Stoker, Tabitha Sparks argues that a narrative's stance towards scientific reason is revealed in the figure of the doctor. Novels with romantic doctors deny the authority of empiricism, while those with clinically minded doctors uphold the determining logic of science and threaten the novel's romantic plot.
Following the decline of the marriage plot in Victorian novels by a range of novelists, including Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George MacDonald, and Bram Stoker, Tabitha Sparks argues that a narrative's stance towards scientific reason is revealed in the figure of the doctor. Novels with romantic doctors deny the authority of empiricism, while those with clinically minded doctors uphold the determining logic of science and threaten the novel's romantic plot.
Tabitha Sparks, Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, specializes in the nineteenth-century British novel. Her work has appeared in book collections, and journals including Cultural Studies and the Journal of Narrative Theory.
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Contents: Introduction Doctoring the marriage plot: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch Textual healing: George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart Marital 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 Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction Doctoring the marriage plot: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch Textual healing: George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart Marital 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 Bibliography Index.
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