Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge

Larry Duffy

ISBN 10: 1137297530 / ISBN 13: 9781137297532

Published by Springer Nature B.V., 2014

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century - Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola - incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137297530
• ISBN 13: 9781137297532
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 18D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 473 grams

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Synopsis

This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

About the Author

Larry Duffy has taught French language, culture and literature in universities in Ireland, Australia and the UK, where he is currently Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. He is the author of numerous journal articles about the nineteenth-century encounter between literature, science and medicine.