Vital Signs Vital Signs
Literature in History

Vital Signs

Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Beschreibung des Verlags

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.

GENRE
Belletristik und Literatur
ERSCHIENEN
1994
12. Dezember
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
252
Seiten
VERLAG
Princeton University Press
GRÖSSE
1,2
 MB

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