Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. 236 pages. Inscribed by author on title page.

From Publisher:

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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0691068968

ISBN-13: 9780691068961

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Year: 1992

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

Signed

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