Title Medical women and Victorian fiction / Kristine Swenson.

Descript 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index. Contents 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. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Women physicians in literature. Physicians in literature. Medicine in literature. Medicine in Literature History of Nursing History, 19th Century Physicians, Women -- history United Kingdom LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817 Literature and medicine. (OCoLC)fst01000080 Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 Physicians in literature. (OCoLC)fst01062957 Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093 Women physicians in literature. (OCoLC)fst01202299 Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623 1800-1899 ISBN 082626431X (electronic bk.) 9780826264312 (electronic bk.) 0826215661 (alk. paper) 9780826215666 (alk. paper)