Vital Signs : Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction /

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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 the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1992.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Realism in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Medicine in literature.
French fiction.
English fiction.
Comparative literature > French and English.
Comparative literature > English and French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Medecins dans la litterature.
Roman français > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Medicine in Literature
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Medicine and mimesis: The contours of a configuration
  • Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the medicalization of the real
  • Paradigms and professionalism: balzacian realism in discursive context
  • "A new organ of knowledge": medical organicism and the limits of realism in middlemarch
  • On the realism/naturalism distinction: some archaeological considerations
  • From diagnosis to deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the perversion of realism
  • The pathological perspective: clinical realism's decline and the emergence of modernist counter-discourse
  • Epilogue: toward a new historicist methodology
  • Notes.

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