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

Rothfield, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691068968 ISBN 13: 9780691068961

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1992

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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 in particular how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority, and he 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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Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

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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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"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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691068968
• ISBN 13: 9780691068961
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
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