Table of Contents for Rothfield, L.: Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

Vital Signs:
Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Lawrence Rothfield

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Medicine and Mimesis: The Contours of a Configuration 3
2 Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Medicalization of the Real 15
3 Paradigms and Professionalism: Balzacian Realism in Discursive Context 46
4 "A New Organ of Knowledge": Medical Organicism and the Limits of Realism in Middlemarch 84
5 On the Realism/Naturalism Distinction: Some Archaeological Considerations 120
6 From Diagnosis to Deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the Perversion of Realism 130
7 The Pathological Perspective: Clinical Realism's Decline and the Emergence of Modernist Counter-Discourse 148
Epilogue: Toward a New Historicist Methodology 175
Notes 193
Index 227