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| ISBN: | 9781400820689
1400820685
1400813220
9781400813223
0691068968
0691029547
9780691029542
1282751565
9781282751569
9786612751561
6612751568
9780691068961
0691068968
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-226) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956- Vital signs. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992
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