Medical examinations
dissecting the doctor in French narrative prose, 1857-1894
Edición de la obra Medical examinations
| Autor | Mary Donaldson-Evans |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Nebraska Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2000 |
| Lugar | Lincoln |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 240 |
| ISBN-10 | 0803266286 |
| OCLC | 50744971, 43884933 |
| LCCN | 00037427 |
| Número de Cutter | D676m |
"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.