The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices / Tabitha Sparks.

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009], ©2009.

177 pages ; 25 cm

Doctoring the marriage plot : Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Textual healing : George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart -- Medical malpractice at mid-century : Braddon's The doctor's wife and Gaskell's Wives and daughters -- Myopic medicine and far-sighted femininity : Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Heart and science -- New women, avenging doctors : Gothic medicine in Bram Stoker and Arthur Machen -- The "fair physician" : female doctors and the late-century marriage plot -- Conclusion : "the overstimulated nerve ceases to respond" : Arthur Conan Doyle's medical modernism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.