Medical Examinations

Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose, 1857-1894

Autor: Mary Donaldson-Evans

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From the crude battlefield surgery of Revolutionary times to the birth of modern clinical medicine,...

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Autor

Mary Donaldson-Evans

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engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2000

Pagini

240

EAN

9780803266285

ISBN

0803266286

Enbook ID

04923909

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

340

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 14

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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 enthralment with medicine and their subservient adoption of a medical model in the creation of their plots and characters have not previously been seriously questioned. In "Medical Examinations", Mary Donaldson-Evans corrects this oversight. Exploring six novels and two short stories published during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, she argues that there was a growing resistance to medicine's linguistic and professional hegemony, a resistance fraught with ideological implications. Tainted by a subtle - and sometimes not so subtle - anti-Semitism, some of the fiction of this period adopts counter-discursive strategies to tar the physician with his own brush. Featured authors include Gustave Flaubert, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Emile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse and Leon Daudet. 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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