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The Female Body as Contagion, Commodity, and Cure: Examining Discursive Agency Through Patriarchal Quackery in Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Robinson.

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Title/Author:	The Female Body as Contagion, Commodity, and Cure: Examining Discursive Agency Through Patriarchal Quackery in Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Robinson.
Author:	Green, Jordan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021
Description:	105 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.
Notes:	Advisor: Tedeschi, Stephen.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-12.
Subject:	English literature.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28323353
ISBN:	9798515247003

The Female Body as Contagion, Commodity, and Cure: Examining Discursive Agency Through Patriarchal Quackery in Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Robinson.
Green, Jordan.

The Female Body as Contagion, Commodity, and Cure: Examining Discursive Agency Through Patriarchal Quackery in Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Robinson. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 105 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Alabama, 2021.

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This thesis seeks to prod at the disciplinary rift between science and literature in an attempt to examine how the female body has been reinscribed, further codified, and controlled within the gendered linguistic structures of eighteenth century experimental electrical medicine. Analyzing Elizabeth Inchbald’s Animal Magnetism in conversation with Mary Robinson’s Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature, I trace both authors’ characterization of the electromagnetic quack doctor as a figure of patriarchal control. I argue that Robinson and Inchbald articulate a critique of the ways in which the rigidly gendered, heavily corporeal, and ambiguous linguistic structures of electricity collapse into a very literal oppression of the female body within patriarchal social structures. Appropriating the language of electricity, and the medical discourses of madness, sympathy, sensibility, and power which undergird it, Inchbald and Robinson examine how these quack figures translate this vocabulary into patriarchal terms to prey upon women. The inherently performative nature of experimental electrical therapy, and its gendered, often eroticized, scientific language which centers upon the female body, allows for a further interrogation of the way that the literal and metaphoric configurations of electrical science converge over the female body.

ISBN: 9798515247003Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English literature.
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Animal magnetism

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