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Alienist
Allegory
Analogy
Arthur Conan Doyle
Author_Lawrence Rothfield
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Consciousness
Criticism
Detective fiction
Disease
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Explanation
Fabulation
Fiction
Fredric Jameson
Genre
George Eliot
Historicism
Idealization
Ideology
Illness as Metaphor
Indication (medicine)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Literary criticism
Literary realism
Literature
Madame Bovary
Melodrama
Metaphor
Mimesis
Monomania
Moral treatment
Narration
Narrative
Novel
Novel of manners
Novelist
Obscenity
Paternalism
Pathology
Penology
Philosopher
Phrenology
Physician
Physiognomy
Positivism
Postmodernism
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Quackery
Racism
Rationality
Richard Aldington
Roland Barthes
Romanticism
Science
Sensationalism
Sensibility
Subjectivity
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
Symptom
The Doctor's Dilemma (play)
The Other Hand
The Physician
The Realist
Theodore Dreiser
Theory
Thought
Utilitarianism
Vocation (poem)
Writer
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029542
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
