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Vital signs : medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction /
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 the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1992.
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| Colección: | Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400820689 1400820685 1400813220 9781400813223 1282751565 9781282751569 9786612751561 6612751568 9780691068961 0691068968 |