Skip to main content alibris logo

Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

by

Write The First Customer Review
Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Rothfield, Lawrence
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

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 ...

loading
Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1995, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691029542

Trade paperback

Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691068961

Hardcover