Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge [electronic resource] /
Duffy, L.author.
University of Kent.Centre for Modern European Literature.
This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; List of Abbreviations; Note on Translations; Note on Manuscripts and Transcriptions; Introduction: Knowledge, Incorporated; Part I: Flaubert and Professional Incorporations; 1 Madame Bovary and the Incorporation of Pharmacy; 2 Medical and Literary Discourses of Disciplinary Struggle and Regulation; Part II: Flaubert, le corps redressé; 3 Diagnosing the Aveugle, Correcting the Body: Ophthalmia and Orthopaedics; 4 Correcting the Aveugle: Monstrosity, Aliénisme, and the Haunting of the Social Body
Part III: Zola: Professional, Pathological, and Therapeutic Incorporations5 La Bête humaine and the Incorporation of Psychiatry: du monstre lombrosien à l'anormal zolien, de la mécanique à la thermodynamique; 6 Textual Healing: Le Docteur Pascal's Incorporation of Hypodermic Therapy; Conclusion: Taxidermy, Taxonomy, and l'esthétique naturaliste; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
European literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
European Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literary History.
Fiction.