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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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