Medical examinations
Subtitle: dissecting the doctor in French narrative prose, 1857-1894
By: Mary Donaldson-Evans.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Physicians in literature; Literature and medicine -- France -- History -- 19th century; Medical fiction -- History and criticism
Description: "The literati's enthrallment 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 counterdiscursive 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.
"A Bison original."