04305nam 2200901 a 450 991082515060332120200520144314.01-4008-1782-X1-4008-1322-01-282-75156-597866127515611-4008-2068-510.1515/9781400820689(CKB)1000000000713600(EBL)581649(OCoLC)700688683(SSID)ssj0000432293(PQKBManifestationID)11281604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432293(PQKBWorkID)10494281(PQKB)11150642(SSID)ssj0000268141(PQKBManifestationID)12064329(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268141(PQKBWorkID)10212731(PQKB)11588224(OCoLC)179077097(MdBmJHUP)muse35934(DE-B1597)446058(OCoLC)979581135(OCoLC)984658942(DE-B1597)9781400820689(Au-PeEL)EBL581649(CaPaEBR)ebr10002103(CaONFJC)MIL275156(MiAaPQ)EBC581649(EXLCZ)99100000000071360019910722d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVital signs[electronic resource] medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction /Lawrence RothfieldCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19921 online resource (254 p.)Literature in historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-691-06896-8 0-691-02954-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-226) and index. Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- ONE. Medicine and Mimesis: The Contours of a Configuration -- TWO. Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Medicalization of the Real -- THREE. Paradigms and Professionalism: Balzacian Realism in Discursive Context -- FOUR. "A New Organ of Knowledge": Medical Organicism and the Limits of Realism in Middlemarch -- FIVE. On the Realism/Naturalism Distinction: Some Archaeological Considerations -- SIX. From Diagnosis to Deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the Perversion of Realism -- SEVEN. The Pathological Perspective: Clinical Realism's Decline and the Emergence of Modernist Counter-Discourse -- EPILOGUE. Toward a New Historicist Methodology -- NOTES -- INDEXVital 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.Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismMedicine in literatureFrench fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismComparative literatureEnglish and FrenchComparative literatureFrench and EnglishPhysicians in literatureRealism in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Medicine in literature.French fictionHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureEnglish and French.Comparative literatureFrench and English.Physicians in literature.Realism in literature.823/.809356Rothfield Lawrence1956-220998MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825150603321Vital signs567974UNINA