Vital signs : medical realism in nineteenth-century fiction

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 the...

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Main Author: Rothfield, Lawrence
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Princeton University Press 1994
Series:Literature in history
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