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Medical aesthetics of the early American novel.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medical aesthetics of the early American novel./
Author:	Tuthill, Maureen.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2275.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3319091
ISBN:	9780549694007

Medical aesthetics of the early American novel.
Tuthill, Maureen.

Medical aesthetics of the early American novel. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2275.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 2008.

This dissertation explores medical topics in three novels of the Federalist era in America. It opens with a discussion of eighteenth-century attitudes about health, illness, and disease that became logical and integral components of the early American novel. A healthy individual was most likely a good citizen; conversely, a sickly person was often profligate, indigent, criminal, or lacking the intellectual strength to maintain physical composure. A healthy society consisted of virtuous citizens who played by the accepted rules of decorum. An examination of Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple (1794) illustrates the way an outsider---an unwed pregnant immigrant from Britain---does not merit the healing ministrations of the community where she is abandoned by her lover. Charlotte Temple dies in neglect because the traditional female healing network does not consider her one of its own. The practice of medicine from the perspective of the physician is considered in a discussion of Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive; or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (1797). In this novel, an early American physician uses his position of authority to detach himself from his patients, to advance himself socially, and to condone or excuse the practice of slavery. Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799-1800) suggests that epidemic disease exposes the limited benevolence of an American society that is becoming deeply entrenched in a cash economy, and is beginning to shun the more personal human entanglements typical of traditional societies.

ISBN: 9780549694007Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Medical aesthetics of the early American novel.
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