Title: Medical examinations
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.
Subjects: French fiction, History, History and criticism, Literature and medicine, Medical fiction, Physicians in literature, French fiction, history and criticism, History, 19th Century, Physicians, Medicine in Literature, History of Medicine, Roman français, Histoire et critique, Médecins dans la littérature, Artsen, Geneeskunde, Frans, Fictie
Places: France
Time periods: 19th century