Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Literature in History) - Softcover

Rothfield, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691029547 ISBN 13: 9780691029542

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1995

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Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He shows how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority. He also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism.

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"An important reinterpretation of nineteenth-century realism. Its description of the novel's interrelationship with the discourse of clinical medicine clearly surpasses that of any other study in its precision, detail, and complexity."--Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691029547
• ISBN 13: 9780691029542
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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