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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...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1992.
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| Series: | Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.