Medical women and Victorian fiction - Swenson, Kristine, 1966-; ebrary, Inc. (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Medicine in literature; Physicians in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women physicians in literature; Electronic books