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Tuttle, Jennifer S. "Empire of Sickness: Literary Professionals and Medical Discourse in the Age of American Nervousness, 1869-1910," Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, June 1996.
This project explores the processes by which constructions of professional authority as well as of racial and cultural dominance in the late nineteenth century come to depend on medical models and practices. Comparing the fictional women physicians of patient-writers William Dean Howells and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, as well as the rest cure prescribed for feminist reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman with what I call the “West cure” recommended to writer Owen Wister, I illustrate the intricate links between literary realism and regular medicine, arguing for the centrality of medical discourses in constructions of gendered, racialized, and classed American identities.
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