The Doctor in the Victorian Novel : Family Practices (Hardcover)

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.