Invalid Women

Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940

Author: Diane Price Herndl
ISBN: 9780807844069

In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl argues tha

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: History)