Margaret Jay Jessee- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Margaret Jay Jessee
- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Introduction
Margaret Jay Jessee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she teaches courses in 19-Century transnational literature, American women writers, Gender Studies, and Medicine and Literature. Her current research focuses on the affective legacy of medical women in sensational and sentimental 19th-century American literature.
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Guest Editor for special issue on Medical Women in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
This chapter analyzes the way nineteenth-century novels characterize women physicians who inhabit what the author calls a queer literary space. Nineteenth-century American women physicians represent a queer, transgressive, and liminal space between the physical and ideological female-inhabited domestic space and the male-dominated professional spac...
Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
The innocent, fair May Welland and the experienced, dark Ellen Olenska appear to be direct opposites of each other, representing the familiar virgin/whore binary. This essay examines Wharton's text as it consistently questions this binary through formal and thematic interrogations of various distinctions. In addition to the opposition between May a...
