Rothfield Vital Signs

Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2068-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

Reihe: Literature in History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothfield, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Medicine and Mimesis: The Contours of a Configuration 3

2 Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Medicalization of the Real 15

3 Paradigms and Professionalism: Balzacian Realism in Discursive Context 46

4 "A New Organ of Knowledge": Medical Organicism and the Limits of Realism in Middlemarch 84

5 On the Realism/Naturalism Distinction: Some Archaeological Considerations 120

6 From Diagnosis to Deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the Perversion of Realism 130

7 The Pathological Perspective: Clinical Realism's Decline and the Emergence of Modernist Counter-Discourse 148

Epilogue: Toward a New Historicist Methodology 175

Notes 193

Index 227

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.