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Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Singing Saw Books
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First edition. Some bracketing in margins in ink. In dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 131134230
- Title
- Vital Signs
- Author
- Rothfield, Lawrence
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691068968
- ISBN 13
- 9780691068961
- Item weight
- 21 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x0x9
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.
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Singing Saw Books
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