Vital Signs Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.1995
Verlag
Princeton University PressSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.5 cm
Gewicht
421 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-02954-2
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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