Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367228439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 92 str.

Margaret Jay Jessee

Opis

This volume 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.　

O autorze

Margaret Jay Jessee, PhD (University of Arizona, 2012) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also Director of the Undergraduate Program. She guest edited a special issue of Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Theory, and Culture on medical women in 19th-century American literature and her essay "'Cutting Up Dead Babies': The Literary Legacy of the Woman Physician as Abortionist" appears in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her other work has appeared in The Journal of Modern Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, South Atlantic Review, and in various essay collections.