TY - BOOK ID - 77868088 TI - Invalid women : figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940 PY - 1993 SN - 0807863904 0585025746 9780585025742 9780807863909 0807821039 9780807821039 0807844063 9780807844069 9798890864529 PB - Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Invalids in literature. KW - Sick in literature. KW - Diseases in literature. KW - Women with disabilities in literature. KW - Medical fiction, American KW - American fiction KW - Women with disabilities KW - Women and literature KW - Handicapped women KW - Physically handicapped women KW - People with disabilities KW - American medical fiction KW - Physically handicapped women in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - History KW - American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. KW - Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century. KW - Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century. KW - American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism. KW - Women with disabilities - United States - History. KW - Medical fiction, American - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868088 AB - "A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.-- Belles Lettres "Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and somatic cures, medicine's place in the rise of capitalism, and the cultural forms in which men and women used the trope of female illness.-- Choice "A rich and provocative study of female illnesses and their textual representations.... A major contribution to the feminist agenda of literature and medicine.--Medical Humanities Review "[An] important book.-- Nineteenth-Century Literature "[This] sophisticated new study... brings the best current strategies of a thoroughly historicized feminist literary criticism to bear on textual representations of female invalidism.-- Feminist Studies "An outstanding study of the representation of female invalidism in American culture and literature. There emerges from this work a striking sense of the changing meanings of female invalidism even as the conjunction of these terms has remained a constant in American cultural history.... Moreover, Invalid Women provides fascinating readings of female illness in a variety of texts.--Gillian Brown, University of Utah "A provocative study based on imaginative historical research and very fine close readings. The book provides a useful American complement to Helena Michie's The Flesh Made Word and Margaret Homans's Bearing the World. It should prove enlightening and otherwise useful not just to scholars of American literature, but also to those engaged in American studies, feminist criticism and theory, women's studies, the sociology of medicine and illness, and the history of science and medicine.--Cynthia S. Jordan, Indiana University ER -