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Author Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956-

Title Vital signs : medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction / Lawrence Rothfield.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Literature in history
Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-226) and index.
Contents Medicine and mimesis: The contours of a configuration -- Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the medicalization of the real -- Paradigms and professionalism: balzacian realism in discursive context -- "A new organ of knowledge": medical organicism and the limits of realism in middlemarch -- On the realism/naturalism distinction: some archaeological considerations -- From diagnosis to deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the perversion of realism -- The pathological perspective: clinical realism's decline and the emergence of modernist counter-discourse -- Epilogue: toward a new historicist methodology -- Notes.
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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Medicine in literature.
Medicine in literature.
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
French fiction.
Comparative literature -- English and French.
Comparative literature -- English and French.
Comparative literature -- French and English.
Comparative literature -- French and English.
Physicians in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Medicine in Literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Indexed Term English fiction Realism History, 1800-1900
French fiction Realism History, 1815-1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956- Vital signs. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992 (DLC) 91029831
ISBN 9781400820689 (electronic book)
1400820685 (electronic book)
1400813220
9781400813223
0691068968
0691029547
9780691029542