Medical women and Victorian fiction [electronic resource] /
Kristine Swenson.
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
- ix, 233 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century. Medicine in literature. Physicians in literature. Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century. Women physicians in literature.