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

Rothfield, Lawrence

 
9780691029542: Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Literature in History)
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ISBN 10: 0691029547 ISBN 13: 9780691029542
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1995

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

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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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691029547
ISBN 13 
9780691029542
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
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9780691068961: Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Literature in History)

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ISBN 10:  0691068968 ISBN 13:  9780691068961
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1992
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