Invalid Women Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940 |
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| Author:
| Price Herndl, Diane |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4406-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1993 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and somatic cures, medicine's place in the rise of capitalism, and the cultural forms in which men and women used the trope of female illness." - Choice
"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and somatic cures, medicine's place in the rise of capitalism, and the cultural forms in which men and women used the trope of female illness." - Choice