Vital Signs : : Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction /

Vital Signs : : Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction / / Lawrence Rothfield.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Rothfield, Lawrence,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994]
©1992
Year of Publication:1994
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Literature in History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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