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  1. Invalid women
    figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940
    Published: ©1993
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585025746; 0807863904; 9780585025742; 9780807863909
    RVK Categories: HT 1691
    Subjects: Roman américain / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Femmes et littérature / États-Unis / Histoire / 19e siècle; Femmes et littérature / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle; Roman américain / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Handicapées / États-Unis / Histoire; Handicapées dans la littérature; Invalides dans la littérature; Maladies dans la littérature; Malades dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Medicine in Literature; Literature, Modern / history / United States; Women; Women's Health; Frau; Geschichte; American fiction; Women and literature; Women and literature; American fiction; Women with disabilities; Women with disabilities in literature; Invalids in literature; Diseases in literature; Sick in literature; Krankheit; Krankheit <Motiv>; Frau <Motiv>; Frau; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 270 pages)
    Notes:

    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index

    Reading Illness - Invalid Ideology - Culture, Dialogue, and Discourse - Invalid Women -- - Ch. 1 - Defining the Feminine/Defining the Invalid: Women and Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Women's Health in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Physicians and Women - Medical Discourse, Cultural Definition -- - Ch. 2 - The Threat of Invalidism: Responsibility and Reward in Domestic and Feminist Fiction - Fiction Figuring Women - Invalid Mothers - The Feminist Invalid -- - Ch. 3 - (Super) "Natural" Invalidism: Male Writers and the Mind/Body Problem - The Domestic and the Romantic (Super)Natural - The Mind/Body Problem - Making Natural Art of Women - The Natural Pharmakon in the Garden - A Return to the Garden: The Healthy Invalid - The "Feverish Poet" -- - Ch. 4 - The Writing Cure: Women Writers and the Art of Illness - Mental Healing at the Turn of the Century - The Writing Cure - The Art of Illness - Happy Endings -- - Ch. 5 - Fighting (with) Illness: Success and the Invalid Woman - Success and the Invalid Woman - Success, Class, and Health - Failing Health - Invalid Men and the Ideology of "Separate Spheres" -- - Ch. 6 - Economics of Illness: Working the Invalid Woman - Willpower - Clinical Ethics and the Invalid Economy - Conclusion: Invalidism and the Female Body Politic - The Political Representation of Feminine Illness

    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl argues that such representations were not "natural" but were instead ideologically motivated. While invalid women in American fiction sometimes upheld and sometimes challenged dominant social and medical practice, Price Herndl contends that the discourse of feminine illness was a battleground for powerful forces that sought to define women's role in society even after feminism's emergence. The figure of the invalid female must, she says, be understood as a highly politicized figure. Price Herndl looks first at mid-nineteenth-century medical theories that defined women as fundamentally "invalid." She then turns to important literary texts, including works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Laura Curtis Bullard, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to show that male and female authors represented invalid women differently. Price Herndl contends that the figure of the ill woman conveniently resolved problems of the changing culture for nineteenth-century authors of both sexes. Price Herndl then traces the image of invalid women from the turn of the century to World War II, using texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Tillie Olsen, as well as the film Dark Victory. Despite dramatic changes in both medical practices and women's place in society, fictional representations remained strikingly stable and politically conservative, Price Herndl argues, even when the author's intent was otherwise

  2. Invalid women
    figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl... more

    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl argues that such representations were not "natural" but were instead ideologically motivated. While invalid women in American fiction sometimes upheld and sometimes challenged dominant social and medical practice, Price Herndl contends that the discourse of feminine illness was a battleground for powerful forces that sought to define women's role in society even after feminism's emergence. The figure of the invalid female must, she says, be understood as a highly politicized figure. Price Herndl looks first at mid-nineteenth-century medical theories that defined women as fundamentally "invalid." She then turns to important literary texts, including works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Laura Curtis Bullard, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to show that male and female authors represented invalid women differently. Price Herndl contends that the figure of the ill woman conveniently resolved problems of the changing culture for nineteenth-century authors of both sexes. Price Herndl then traces the image of invalid women from the turn of the century to World War II, using texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Tillie Olsen, as well as the film Dark Victory. Despite dramatic changes in both medical practices and women's place in society, fictional representations remained strikingly stable and politically conservative, Price Herndl argues, even when the author's intent was otherwise

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585025746; 9780585025742; 0807863904; 9780807863909
    Subjects: American fiction; Women and literature; Women and literature; American fiction; Women with disabilities; Women with disabilities in literature; Invalids in literature; Diseases in literature; Sick in literature; Roman américain; Femmes et littérature; Femmes et littérature; Roman américain; Handicapées; Handicapées dans la littérature; Invalides dans la littérature; Maladies dans la littérature; Malades dans la littérature; Medicine in Literature; Array; Women; Women's Health; American fiction; American fiction; Diseases in literature; Femmes et littérature; Femmes et littérature; Handicapées; Handicapées dans la littérature; Invalides dans la littérature; Invalids in literature; Malades dans la littérature; Maladies dans la littérature; Roman américain; Roman américain; Sick in literature; Women and literature; Women and literature; Women with disabilities; Women with disabilities in literature
    Scope: Online Ressource (xv, 270 pages), illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index. - Description based on print version record

    Description based on print version record

    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

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  3. Invalid women
    figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl argues that such representations were not "natural" but were instead ideologically motivated. While invalid women in American fiction sometimes upheld and sometimes challenged dominant social and medical practice, Price Herndl contends that the discourse of feminine illness was a battleground for powerful forces that sought to define women's role in society even after feminism's emergence. The figure of the invalid female must, she says, be understood as a highly politicized figure. Price Herndl looks first at mid-nineteenth-century medical theories that defined women as fundamentally "invalid." She then turns to important literary texts, including works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Laura Curtis Bullard, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to show that male and female authors represented invalid women differently. Price Herndl contends that the figure of the ill woman conveniently resolved problems of the changing culture for nineteenth-century authors of both sexes. Price Herndl then traces the image of invalid women from the turn of the century to World War II, using texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Tillie Olsen, as well as the film Dark Victory. Despite dramatic changes in both medical practices and women's place in society, fictional representations remained strikingly stable and politically conservative, Price Herndl argues, even when the author's intent was otherwise.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585025746; 9780585025742; 0807863904; 9780807863909
    RVK Categories: HT 1691
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 270 pages), Illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index

  4. Invalid women
    figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940
    Published: ©1993
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl... more

    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
    No inter-library loan

     

    In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl argues that such representations were not "natural" but were instead ideologically motivated. While invalid women in American fiction sometimes upheld and sometimes challenged dominant social and medical practice, Price Herndl contends that the discourse of feminine illness was a battleground for powerful forces that sought to define women's role in society even after feminism's emergence. The figure of the invalid female must, she says, be understood as a highly politicized figure. Price Herndl looks first at mid-nineteenth-century medical theories that defined women as fundamentally "invalid." She then turns to important literary texts, including works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Laura Curtis Bullard, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to show that male and female authors represented invalid women differently. Price Herndl contends that the figure of the ill woman conveniently resolved problems of the changing culture for nineteenth-century authors of both sexes. Price Herndl then traces the image of invalid women from the turn of the century to World War II, using texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Tillie Olsen, as well as the film Dark Victory. Despite dramatic changes in both medical practices and women's place in society, fictional representations remained strikingly stable and politically conservative, Price Herndl argues, even when the author's intent was otherwise

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585025746; 0807863904; 9780585025742; 9780807863909
    Subjects: Women and literature; American fiction; Women with disabilities; Women with disabilities in literature; Invalids in literature; Diseases in literature; Sick in literature; American fiction; Women and literature; Women; Women's Health; Medicine in Literature; Literature, Modern
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xv, 270 pages), illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index

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    Reading Illness.Invalid Ideology.Culture, Dialogue, and Discourse.Invalid WomenCh. 1.Defining the Feminine/Defining the Invalid: Women and Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.Women's Health in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.Physicians and Women.Medical Discourse, Cultural DefinitionCh. 2.The Threat of Invalidism: Responsibility and Reward in Domestic and Feminist Fiction.Fiction Figuring Women.Invalid Mothers.The Feminist InvalidCh. 3.(Super) "Natural" Invalidism: Male Writers and the Mind/Body Problem.The Domestic and the Romantic (Super)Natural.The Mind/Body Problem.Making Natural Art of Women.The Natural Pharmakon in the Garden.A Return to the Garden: The Healthy Invalid.The "Feverish Poet"Ch. 4.The Writing Cure: Women Writers and the Art of Illness.Mental Healing at the Turn of the Century.The Writing Cure.The Art of Illness.Happy EndingsCh. 5.Fighting (with) Illness: Success and the Invalid Woman.Success and the Invalid Woman.Success, Class, and Health.Failing Health.Invalid Men and the Ideology of "Separate Spheres"Ch. 6.Economics of Illness: Working the Invalid Woman.Willpower.Clinical Ethics and the Invalid Economy.Conclusion: Invalidism and the Female Body Politic.The Political Representation of Feminine Illness.