Vital Signs : Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction Paperback / softback
by Lawrence Rothfield
Part of the Literature in History series
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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 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1995
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- ISBN:9780691029542
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1995
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- ISBN:9780691029542
