RODRÍGUEZ PASTOR , Cristina

Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny, escrita en 1861 por Oliver Wendell Holmes, es una novela singular. Escrita en una época en que la medicina luchaba por convertirse en un modelo de profesionalización, su singularidad recae en el hecho de que hay cuatro médicos implicados en la novela: su autor, el narrador de la historia y dos personajes...

When we consider Victorian literature, it is striking to note the high number of novels that participated in the growing debate of the time around health, in particular that of women. This debate was encouraged by the attention nineteenth century medicine paid to the female body. Thus, there are countless examples of novels in which the heroine...