Vital signs: medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction
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 the...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton, N.J.
Princeton Univ. Pr.
1992
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| Schriftenreihe: | Literature in history
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 in particular how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority, and he traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism. Rothfield first demonstrates, in discussions of Balzac's The Country Doctor and Flaubert's Madame Bovary, that the nature of the connection between medicine and realism varies with the purpose and period of each author, even where realists unabashedly appropriate the clinical viewpoint. In Eliot's Middlemarch, however, a crisis of medical authority--provoked by emerging alternative scientific conceptions of the body and by medicine's loss of charismatic appeal as it consolidates into a profession--makes the connection between medicine and realism increasingly difficult to maintain. Zola and Conan Doyle respond by subordinating the clinical viewpoint to others in their "pararealistic" fiction, while modernists negate medicine's basic presuppositions about the body, truth, and professional authority. Pathology, Rothfield concludes, constitutes a category of social differentiation equivalent to race, class, or gender; it generates a politics of knowledge irreducible to either "policing power" or Marxist totalizing. |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 235 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780691029542 0691029547 0691068968 |
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| spelling | Rothfield, Lawrence 1956- Verfasser (DE-588)139300139 aut Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction Lawrence Rothfield Princeton, N.J. Princeton Univ. Pr. 1992 XVII, 235 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Literature in history 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 in particular how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority, and he traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism. Rothfield first demonstrates, in discussions of Balzac's The Country Doctor and Flaubert's Madame Bovary, that the nature of the connection between medicine and realism varies with the purpose and period of each author, even where realists unabashedly appropriate the clinical viewpoint. In Eliot's Middlemarch, however, a crisis of medical authority--provoked by emerging alternative scientific conceptions of the body and by medicine's loss of charismatic appeal as it consolidates into a profession--makes the connection between medicine and realism increasingly difficult to maintain. Zola and Conan Doyle respond by subordinating the clinical viewpoint to others in their "pararealistic" fiction, while modernists negate medicine's basic presuppositions about the body, truth, and professional authority. Pathology, Rothfield concludes, constitutes a category of social differentiation equivalent to race, class, or gender; it generates a politics of knowledge irreducible to either "policing power" or Marxist totalizing. Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1830-1880 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1800-1900 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1850-1930 gnd rswk-swf Engels gtt Frans gtt Geneeskunde gtt Littérature comparée - Anglaise et française Littérature comparée - Française et anglaise Médecine dans la littérature Médecins dans la littérature Realisme (letterkunde) gtt Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman français - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Romans gtt Réalisme dans la littérature Englisch Französisch Geschichte Medizin Comparative literature English and French Comparative literature French and English English fiction 19th century History and criticism French fiction 19th century History and criticism Literature and medicine France History 19th century Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century Medical fiction History and criticism Medicine in Literature Medicine in literature Physicians in literature Realism in literature Realismus (DE-588)4048680-1 gnd rswk-swf Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 gnd rswk-swf Medizin Motiv (DE-588)4114545-8 gnd rswk-swf Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 gnd rswk-swf Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Französisch (DE-588)4113615-9 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich Großbritannien Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 s Realismus (DE-588)4048680-1 s Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 s Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 s Geschichte 1800-1900 z DE-604 Medizin Motiv (DE-588)4114545-8 s Geschichte 1850-1930 z Französisch (DE-588)4113615-9 s Geschichte 1830-1880 z |
| spellingShingle | Rothfield, Lawrence 1956- Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction Engels gtt Frans gtt Geneeskunde gtt Littérature comparée - Anglaise et française Littérature comparée - Française et anglaise Médecine dans la littérature Médecins dans la littérature Realisme (letterkunde) gtt Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman français - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Romans gtt Réalisme dans la littérature Englisch Französisch Geschichte Medizin Comparative literature English and French Comparative literature French and English English fiction 19th century History and criticism French fiction 19th century History and criticism Literature and medicine France History 19th century Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century Medical fiction History and criticism Medicine in Literature Medicine in literature Physicians in literature Realism in literature Realismus (DE-588)4048680-1 gnd Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 gnd Medizin Motiv (DE-588)4114545-8 gnd Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 gnd Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Französisch (DE-588)4113615-9 gnd |
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| title | Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction |
| title_auth | Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction |
| title_exact_search | Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction |
| title_full | Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction Lawrence Rothfield |
| title_fullStr | Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction Lawrence Rothfield |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vital signs medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction Lawrence Rothfield |
| title_short | Vital signs |
| title_sort | vital signs medical realism in nineteenth century fiction |
| title_sub | medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction |
| topic | Engels gtt Frans gtt Geneeskunde gtt Littérature comparée - Anglaise et française Littérature comparée - Française et anglaise Médecine dans la littérature Médecins dans la littérature Realisme (letterkunde) gtt Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman français - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Romans gtt Réalisme dans la littérature Englisch Französisch Geschichte Medizin Comparative literature English and French Comparative literature French and English English fiction 19th century History and criticism French fiction 19th century History and criticism Literature and medicine France History 19th century Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century Medical fiction History and criticism Medicine in Literature Medicine in literature Physicians in literature Realism in literature Realismus (DE-588)4048680-1 gnd Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 gnd Medizin Motiv (DE-588)4114545-8 gnd Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 gnd Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Französisch (DE-588)4113615-9 gnd |
| topic_facet | Engels Frans Geneeskunde Littérature comparée - Anglaise et française Littérature comparée - Française et anglaise Médecine dans la littérature Médecins dans la littérature Realisme (letterkunde) Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman français - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Romans Réalisme dans la littérature Englisch Französisch Geschichte Medizin Comparative literature English and French Comparative literature French and English English fiction 19th century History and criticism French fiction 19th century History and criticism Literature and medicine France History 19th century Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century Medical fiction History and criticism Medicine in Literature Medicine in literature Physicians in literature Realism in literature Realismus Medizin Motiv Erzähltechnik Roman Frankreich Großbritannien |
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