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The Doctor in the Victorian Novel - 9780754668022

Un libro in lingua di Tabitha Sparks edito da Ashgate Pub Co, 2009

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Sparks (English, McGill University) looks at the character of the doctor in novels from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. She argues that the ways in which the doctor was represented signal changes in what was the central theme of early novels, the marriage plot. Using authors such as, Martineau, Elliot, George MacDonald, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker and Conan Doyle, among others, Sparks demonstrates the difficulty of making the doctor fit into the established literary pattern. She sees this as symbolic of changes in society but also in changes in the form and function of the novel. The movement of the doctor from an avuncular or heroic figure to a cold-blooded villain is also indicative of the transition in novels from the marriage plot, in which society is made whole by union, to a social, more problematic, plot that mirrors the changing role of both women and medical professionals in society. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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