LEADER 04305nam 2200901 a 450 001 9910825150603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-1782-X 010 $a1-4008-1322-0 010 $a1-282-75156-5 010 $a9786612751561 010 $a1-4008-2068-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820689 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713600 035 $a(EBL)581649 035 $a(OCoLC)700688683 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432293 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11281604 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432293 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10494281 035 $a(PQKB)11150642 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268141 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12064329 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268141 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10212731 035 $a(PQKB)11588224 035 $a(OCoLC)179077097 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35934 035 $a(DE-B1597)446058 035 $a(OCoLC)979581135 035 $a(OCoLC)984658942 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820689 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581649 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002103 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581649 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713600 100 $a19910722d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVital signs$b[electronic resource] $emedical realism in nineteenth-century fiction /$fLawrence Rothfield 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1992 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 225 1 $aLiterature in history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-06896-8 311 $a0-691-02954-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-226) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tONE. Medicine and Mimesis: The Contours of a Configuration -- $tTWO. Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Medicalization of the Real -- $tTHREE. Paradigms and Professionalism: Balzacian Realism in Discursive Context -- $tFOUR. "A New Organ of Knowledge": Medical Organicism and the Limits of Realism in Middlemarch -- $tFIVE. On the Realism/Naturalism Distinction: Some Archaeological Considerations -- $tSIX. From Diagnosis to Deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the Perversion of Realism -- $tSEVEN. The Pathological Perspective: Clinical Realism's Decline and the Emergence of Modernist Counter-Discourse -- $tEPILOGUE. Toward a New Historicist Methodology -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX 330 $aVital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He shows how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority. He also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism. 410 0$aLiterature in history (Princeton, N.J.) 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMedicine in literature 606 $aFrench fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and French 606 $aComparative literature$xFrench and English 606 $aPhysicians in literature 606 $aRealism in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMedicine in literature. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and French. 615 0$aComparative literature$xFrench and English. 615 0$aPhysicians in literature. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 676 $a823/.809356 700 $aRothfield$b Lawrence$f1956-$0220998 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825150603321 996 $aVital signs$9567974 997 $aUNINA