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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"nineteenth-century medicine"”.
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A Case Study in Nineteenth Century Medicine: Robert Ellett's Medical Practice, 1850-1904
… focuses upon the practice and realities of 19th century rural medical practitioners located throughout segments of southwestern Virginia. The study particularly examines the career of Montgomery County physician Robert T. Ellett, M.D. Despite opening a practice located far from his family home, …
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Romanticizing Tuberculosis: Poetry, Prose, Opera, and Society of the Romantic Era
The Romantic Era peaked from 1800 through 1850. This era saw an increased emphasis on individualism and the self, and a growing sense of nationalism. The works of the period relied on sensory description, using romance to cloud otherwise bleak situations. For society, consumption was linked to …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… writers. I argue that a broader consideration of nineteenth-century women’s literature that more thoroughly encompasses popular fiction can expand our understanding of sentimentalism as both a genre and cultural discourse. My study is in large part a recovery project, aiming to shed new light on …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
Three popular novels that span the nineteenth century—Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the …