Vital signs [[electronic resource] ] : medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction / / Lawrence Rothfield

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Autore:	Rothfield Lawrence <1956->
Titolo:	Vital signs [[electronic resource] ] : medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction / / Lawrence Rothfield
Pubblicazione:	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1992
Edizione:	Course Book
Descrizione fisica:	1 online resource (254 p.)
Disciplina:	823/.809356
Soggetto topico:	English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
	Medicine in literature
	French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
	Comparative literature - English and French
	Comparative literature - French and English
	Physicians in literature
	Realism in literature
Note generali:	Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-226) and index.
Nota di contenuto:	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 -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto:	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 and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism.
Titolo autorizzato:	Vital signs
ISBN:	1-4008-1782-X
	1-4008-1322-0
	1-282-75156-5
	9786612751561
	1-4008-2068-5
Formato:	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione:	Inglese
Record Nr.:	9910825150603321
Lo trovi qui:	Univ. Federico II
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Serie: Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)

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