(Pre)scription narratives : feminist medical fiction and the failure of American censorship /

Tavera, Stephanie Peebles,

(Pre)scription narratives : feminist medical fiction and the failure of American censorship / Prescription narratives Stephanie Peebles Tavera. - Edinburgh Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations. - Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Crip medicine: Environmental health and the matter of hysteria -- Listen for the new man: From narrative prosthesis to narrative medicine -- Kinetic medicine: Superposition of Black female subjectivity before the law -- Affective fear: Vulnerability and risk in anti-VD campaign counternarratives -- Conclusion: Medical theater: The birth of anti-lynching plays and reproductive justice.



9781474493215


American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Medical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Censorship--History.--United States
Disabilities in literature.
Women with disabilities in literature.
Women in literature.
Human body in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS374 / .P747 2022