TY - BOOK ID - 77882790 TI - Vital signs : medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction PY - 1992 SN - 1400813220 1282751565 9786612751561 1400820685 9781400820689 9781400813223 0691068968 0691029547 9780691029542 9781282751569 6612751568 140081782X 9780691068961 PB - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Realism in literature. KW - Physicians in literature. KW - Medical fiction KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature and medicine KW - French fiction KW - Medicine in literature. KW - English fiction KW - Neorealism (Literature) KW - Magic realism (Literature) KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Medical care in literature KW - Medicine and literature KW - Medicine KW - History and criticism. KW - French and English. KW - English and French. KW - History KW - Medicine in literature KW - Physicians in literature KW - Realism in literature KW - 82.091 KW - 82-31 "18" KW - 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie KW - Vergelijkende literatuurstudie KW - 82-31 "18" Roman--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 KW - Roman--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 KW - English and French KW - French and English KW - History and criticism KW - English language KW - French language KW - Thematology KW - anno 1800-1899 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77882790 AB - 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. ER -