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  • Brief Reviews
  • Gary Scharnhorst and Cindy Murillo
George Haggerty. Queer Gothic. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 226 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00. Gothic literature receives renewed critical discussion in light of society's codification of sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. Although Haggerty rehashes some material from his earlier books, he nevertheless moves beyond eighteenth-century Britain to offer a profound analysis of "queer" gothic sexuality in anticipation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including those by Henry James.
Sarah Orne Jewett. A County Doctor. Ed. with an introduction and notes by Frederick Wegener. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005. xlvi + 271 pp. Paper, $14.00. A first-rate edition of a neglected classic suitable for classroom adoption. Medicine was arguably the most patriarchal of all professions in 19th century America, as such texts as Howells' Dr. Breen's Practice, Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' Doctor Zay, Kate Chopin's The Awakening, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" may suggest. Wegener's introduction and endnotes helpfully contextualize the novel.
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