Wells’s The Wheels of Chance (1896) and Allen’s Miss Cayley’s Adventures (1899) – offer well-worn critical narratives. Female nurses and doctors have been similarly well examined. Indeed, one of the peculiar features of this study is its heavy reliance on previous scholarship; at times it reads more like a diligent literature survey than the sort of ‘revision’ of received wisdom at which the Critical Studies series aims. For a book on the NewWoman, this study is curiously deferential to past authority and conformist in its theoretical framework. And while I take issue with some of the critical insights that Wånggren offers – she is sometimes rather deaf to tone, and ought surely not to claim that a fictional text can ‘prove’, for example, that a New Woman doctor does not have to be unwomanly (p. 155) – I would nevertheless have welcomed more from her and less from Foucault.

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查尔斯·安德鲁斯，反战写作：文学、激进主义和英国和平运动

Wells 的 The Wheels of Chance (1896) 和 Allen 的 Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899) – 提供陈旧的批判性叙事。女护士和医生也同样接受了很好的检查。事实上，这项研究的一个特点是它严重依赖以前的学术成果。有时，它读起来更像是一份勤奋的文学调查，而不是批判性研究系列所针对的那种对公认智慧的“修订”。作为一本关于新女性的书，这项研究奇怪地尊重过去的权威，并且在其理论框架上墨守成规。虽然我对 Wånggren 提供的一些批判性见解持异议——她有时对语气充耳不闻，当然不应该声称虚构的文本可以“证明”，例如，新女性医生不必不女性化 (p.