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Medical Examinations: Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose, 1857-1894
Mary Donaldson-Evans
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Paperback. Presents a re-examination of nineteenth-century French culture and literature's representation of the physician and medicine. Exploring six novels and two short stories published during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, the author argues that there was a growing resistance to medicine's linguistic and professional hegemony. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
From the crude battlefield surgery of Revolutionary times to the birth of modern clinical medicine, the nineteenth century witnessed impressive developments in the medical sciences and a concomitant growth in the prestige of the medical practitioner. In France this phenomenon had important implications for literature as writers scrambled to give legitimacy to their enterprise by allying themselves with science. Overflowing its traditional banks, medical discourse inundated the field of French literature, particularly in the realist and naturalist movements.
From the crude battlefield surgery of Revolutionary times to the birth of modern clinical medicine, the nineteenth century witnessed impressive developments in the medical sciences and a concomitant growth in the prestige of the medical practitioner. In France this phenomenon had important implications for literature as writers scrambled to give legitimacy to their enterprise by allying themselves with science. Overflowing its traditional banks, medical discourse inundated the field of French literature, particularly in the realist and naturalist movements.
The literati's enthrallment with medicine and their subservient adoption of a medical model in the creation of their plots and characters have ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803266285
SKU
V9780803266285
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About Mary Donaldson-Evans
Mary Donaldson-Evans is a professor of French at the University of Delaware. Her works include Modernity and Revolution in Late-Nineteenth-Century France.
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