1st Edition
Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia
Introduction; Chapter 1: An Herbal Pharmacopeia of Possets, Tinctures, and Teas: Emetics, Emmenagogues, and Abortifacients in The Country of the Pointed Firs; Chapter 2: A Sweetly Toxic Pharmacopeia: An Amalgamation of Nightshade and Blackberries, Bodily Autonomy, and Generational Trauma in “Old Woman Magoun”; Chapter 3: A Synthetic Pharmacopeia of Deceit: Bodily Autonomy, Quelling Anxiety, and Inducing Somnolence Through the Seductive, Lethal Embrace of Chloral in The House of Mirth; Chapter 4: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopeias: Dispiriting Analeptics, Tonics of Alkaloids and Synthetics, and Ensuing Comprehensive Loss of Bodily Autonomy in Asylum Settings; Conclusion
Biography
Jennifer M. Nader is an Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she enjoys teaching a variety of humanities and communication classes. She is especially interested in Nineteenth Century multi-ethnic American literature, Nineteenth Century American literature, Latin American literature, Caribbean literature, and World literature. She is the co-editor of The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and has published works about the literature of Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Packard and Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frank Norris, S. Alice Callahan, Horatio Alger, and Van Wyck Brooks. She is currently working on an article pertaining to the Married Women’s Property Acts and Louisa May Alcott and has begun researching for her next manuscript project on contemporary American literature focusing on women’s bodily autonomy.
