| Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction Contributor(s): Rothfield, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691029547 ISBN-13: 9780691029542 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $59.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: 'Vital Signs' offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. It also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 91029831 |
| Lexile Measure: 1620 |
| Series: Literature in History (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.11" W x 9.27" (0.80 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
