Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

by Sondra M. Archimedes

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Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. Analyzing novels by Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy alongside Foucault's notion of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's model of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the pathologized female body displaces or resolves, on a narrative...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415647959

ISBN13:9780415647953

Release Date:August 2012

Publisher:Routledge

Length:210 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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