The Resource Women in medicine in nineteenth-century American literature : from poisoners to doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara, Sara L. Crosby
Women in medicine in nineteenth-century American literature : from poisoners to doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara, Sara L. Crosby
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- Summary
- This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom's Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly "medicalized" poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or "vampires" imagined by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D.W. Griffith
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages : illustrations)
- Contents
-
- Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner
- Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Homeopathic Poisoner
- Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb's Antidote to the Tom Shows
- Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's Pathological Poisoner
- Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman
- Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and the Lingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner
- Isbn
- 9783319964638
- Label
- Women in medicine in nineteenth-century American literature : from poisoners to doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara
- Title
- Women in medicine in nineteenth-century American literature
- Title remainder
- from poisoners to doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara
- Statement of responsibility
- Sara L. Crosby
- Subject
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- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History of science
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary theory
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
- Poisoners in literature
- Women healers in literature
- Women healers in literature
- Women in motion pictures
- Women physicians in literature
- Women physicians in literature
- Women poisoners
- 1800-1899
- American literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom's Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly "medicalized" poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or "vampires" imagined by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D.W. Griffith
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Crosby, Sara Lynn
- Dewey number
- 810.93522
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS173.W6
- LC item number
- C76 2018eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Poisoners in literature
- Women poisoners
- Women physicians in literature
- Women healers in literature
- Women in motion pictures
- Motion pictures
- Literary theory
- History of science
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American literature
- Women healers in literature
- Women physicians in literature
- Label
- Women in medicine in nineteenth-century American literature : from poisoners to doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara, Sara L. Crosby
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner -- Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Homeopathic Poisoner -- Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb's Antidote to the Tom Shows -- Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's Pathological Poisoner -- Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman -- Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and the Lingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner
- Control code
- 1052766499
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages : illustrations)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9783319964638
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1052766499
- Label
- Women in medicine in nineteenth-century American literature : from poisoners to doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara, Sara L. Crosby
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction. Making the Medicinal Poisoner -- Chapter 2. A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Homeopathic Poisoner -- Chapter 3. Playing Poison: Mary Webb's Antidote to the Tom Shows -- Chapter 4. With Friends Like These: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's Pathological Poisoner -- Chapter 5. The Lady Doctor and the Vamp: How Louisa May Alcott, Theda Bara, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., Killed the Poisonous Woman -- Chapter 6. Conclusion and Coda. A Presidential Election, My Cousin Rachel, and the Lingering Effects of the Medicinal Poisoner
- Control code
- 1052766499
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages : illustrations)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9783319964638
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1052766499
Subject
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History of science
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary theory
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
- Poisoners in literature
- Women healers in literature
- Women healers in literature
- Women in motion pictures
- Women physicians in literature
- Women physicians in literature
- Women poisoners
- 1800-1899
- American literature
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