Vital Signs
：Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
( Literature in History )
Publication subTitle ：Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Publication series ：Literature in History
Author： Rothfield Lawrence
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 1994
E-ISBN: 9781400820689
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691029542
Subject： I Literature;I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation
Keyword： 文学
Language： ENG
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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.
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