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

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

Part of the Routledge Focus on Literature series

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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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