Description
An important reinterpretation of nineteenth-century realism. Its description of the novel's interrelationship with the discourse of clinical medicine clearly surpasses that of any other study in its precision, detail, and complexity. -- Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley
About the Author
Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Reviews
"Vital Signs fulfills some of the urgent needs of literature and medicine as a discipline through its rigorous historical and intellectual scholarship, its perceptive close readings of several texts in the canon of literature and medicine, and its challenging assertions of the intimacy between clinical medicine and realism."--Rita Charon, Literature and Medicine "A unique historicist literary analysis of medical realism in fiction."--Marsha Terry Winter, Nineteenth-Century French Studies "Vital Signs is a careful investigation of medical modes of thinking in the nineteenth century and their relationship to the Victorian realist novel... of vital interest to anyone concerned with realism as a literary form... an impressive work of cultural history... Vital Signs has opened up a significant new approach to the issue of realism, and one that is argued persuasively in an unusually thorough and well-designed study."--P. Melville Logan, Victorian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780691029542
Author Lawrence Rothfield
Format Paperback
Page Count 252
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 369g