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• catalog abstract "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 that such representations were not "natural" but were instead ideologically motivated. While invalid women in American fiction sometimes upheld and sometimes challenged dominant social and medical practice, Price Herndl contends that the discourse of feminine illness was a battleground for powerful forces that sought to define women's role in society even after feminism's emergence. The figure of the invalid female must, she says, be understood as a highly politicized figure. Price Herndl looks first at mid-nineteenth-century medical theories that defined women as fundamentally "invalid." She then turns to important literary texts, including works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Laura Curtis Bullard, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to show that male and female authors represented invalid women differently. Price Herndl contends that the figure of the ill woman conveniently resolved problems of the changing culture for nineteenth-century authors of both sexes. Price Herndl then traces the image of invalid women from the turn of the century to World War II, using texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Tillie Olsen, as well as the film Dark Victory. Despite dramatic changes in both medical practices and women's place in society, fictional representations remained strikingly stable and politically conservative, Price Herndl argues, even when the author's intent was otherwise.".
• catalog alternative "Figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940".
• catalog contributor b4112612.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "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 that such representations were not "natural" but were instead ideologically motivated. While invalid women in American fiction sometimes upheld and sometimes challenged dominant social and medical practice, Price Herndl contends that the discourse of feminine illness was a battleground for powerful forces that sought to define women's role in society even after feminism's emergence. The figure of the invalid female must, she says, be understood as a highly politicized figure.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-261) and index.".
• catalog description "Price Herndl looks first at mid-nineteenth-century medical theories that defined women as fundamentally "invalid." She then turns to important literary texts, including works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Laura Curtis Bullard, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to show that male and female authors represented invalid women differently. Price Herndl contends that the figure of the ill woman conveniently resolved problems of the changing culture for nineteenth-century authors of both sexes.".
• catalog description "Price Herndl then traces the image of invalid women from the turn of the century to World War II, using texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Tillie Olsen, as well as the film Dark Victory. Despite dramatic changes in both medical practices and women's place in society, fictional representations remained strikingly stable and politically conservative, Price Herndl argues, even when the author's intent was otherwise.".
• catalog description "Reading Illness. Invalid Ideology. Culture, Dialogue, and Discourse. Invalid Women -- Ch. 1. Defining the Feminine/Defining the Invalid: Women and Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Women's Health in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Physicians and Women. Medical Discourse, Cultural Definition -- Ch. 2. The Threat of Invalidism: Responsibility and Reward in Domestic and Feminist Fiction. Fiction Figuring Women. Invalid Mothers. The Feminist Invalid -- Ch. 3. (Super) "Natural" Invalidism: Male Writers and the Mind/Body Problem. The Domestic and the Romantic (Super)Natural. The Mind/Body Problem. Making Natural Art of Women. The Natural Pharmakon in the Garden. A Return to the Garden: The Healthy Invalid. The "Feverish Poet" -- Ch. 4. The Writing Cure: Women Writers and the Art of Illness. Mental Healing at the Turn of the Century. The Writing Cure. The Art of Illness. Happy Endings -- Ch. 5. Fighting (with) Illness: Success and the Invalid Woman. Success and the Invalid Woman.".
• catalog extent "xv, 270 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Invalid women.".
• catalog identifier "0807821039 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0807844063 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Invalid women.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
• catalog relation "Invalid women.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "1993 A-569".
• catalog subject "813.009/352042 20".
• catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Diseases in literature.".
• catalog subject "Invalids in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature, Modern United States History.".
• catalog subject "Medical fiction, American History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Medicine in Literature United States.".
• catalog subject "PS374.W6 P74 1993".
• catalog subject "Sick in literature.".
• catalog subject "WZ 330 P945i 1993".
• catalog subject "Women United States.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Women with disabilities United States History.".
• catalog subject "Women with disabilities in literature.".
• catalog subject "Women's Health United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Reading Illness. Invalid Ideology. Culture, Dialogue, and Discourse. Invalid Women -- Ch. 1. Defining the Feminine/Defining the Invalid: Women and Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Women's Health in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Physicians and Women. Medical Discourse, Cultural Definition -- Ch. 2. The Threat of Invalidism: Responsibility and Reward in Domestic and Feminist Fiction. Fiction Figuring Women. Invalid Mothers. The Feminist Invalid -- Ch. 3. (Super) "Natural" Invalidism: Male Writers and the Mind/Body Problem. The Domestic and the Romantic (Super)Natural. The Mind/Body Problem. Making Natural Art of Women. The Natural Pharmakon in the Garden. A Return to the Garden: The Healthy Invalid. The "Feverish Poet" -- Ch. 4. The Writing Cure: Women Writers and the Art of Illness. Mental Healing at the Turn of the Century. The Writing Cure. The Art of Illness. Happy Endings -- Ch. 5. Fighting (with) Illness: Success and the Invalid Woman. Success and the Invalid Woman.".
• catalog title "Figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940".
• catalog title "Invalid women : figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940 / Diane Price Herndl.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".