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

Rothfield, Lawrence

 
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

Sinopsis

"Vital Signs" offers both a reinterpretation of the 19th-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 demonstrates 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

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1992
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691068968
ISBN 13 
9780691068961
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Número de páginas
260
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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
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