Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) 1st Edition

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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 level, larger cultural anxieties about the health of the British as a species. Read more

ISBN10 0415647959
ISBN13 978-0415647953
Edition 1st
Language English
Publisher Routledge
Dimensions 5.98 x 0.48 x 9.02 inches
Item Weight 13.8 ounces
Print length 210 pages
Part of series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Publication date January 26, 2013

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