TY - BOOK ID - 77902360 TI - Doctoring the novel PY - 2012 SN - 0821444069 9780821444061 9780821419908 0821419900 PB - Athens Ohio University Press DB - UniCat KW - Physicians in literature. KW - Quacks and quackery in literature. KW - Literature and medicine KW - English fiction KW - History KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77902360 AB - If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Little Do ER -