Beschreibung:
Analyzing novels by Charles Dickens, H Rider Haggard and Thomas Hardy, this book examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION "Derangements of the Uterus" and Other MysteriesCHAPTER 1 Science, Gender, and the Nineteenth CenturyCHAPTER 2 Towards a Discourse of Perversion: Female Deviance, Sibling Incest, and the Bourgeois Family in Dickens's Hard TimesCHAPTER 3 Women, Savages, and the Body of Africa: Rider Haggard's She as Biological NarrativeCHAPTER 4 "Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied": Sue Bridehead, Reproduction, and the Disease of "Modern Civilization"AFTERWORD Female Deviance in the Twenty-First Century: From Martha Stewart to Lynndie EnglandWORKS CITEDINDEX