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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Knowledge, Incorporated
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Flaubert and Professional Incorporations
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Flaubert, le corps redressé
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Zola: Professional, Pathological, and Therapeutic Incorporations
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Conclusion: Taxidermy, Taxonomy, and l’esthétique naturaliste
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About this book
Reviews
“It provides invaluable insights into the debates and power struggles that occupy the scientific and medical world in nineteenth-century France. Furthermore, it helps us reconsider how we conceive of the connection, central to all realisms, between the physiological body and the many texts, fictional or not, that discuss it.” (Martine Gantrel, Modern Language Review, Vol. 111 (3), July, 2016)
'Duffy breaks new ground in this major study by offering a rich analysis of the incorporation of an impressive range of contemporary extraliterary discourses into the writings of Flaubert and Zola, two of the nineteenth century's most influential writers. Moving beyond understandings of incorporation that focus on sexuality, he attentively probes, through a series of close readings and intertextual and theoretical engagements, the ways in which disciplinary knowledge is represented in the powerful metaphor of the physiological body in need of treatment and correction. The book makes a high-quality, imaginative contribution, not merely to the discipline of French studies but, in-keeping with its desire to break down discursive boundaries, to scholarship on the interfaces between literary, medical and scientific discourses, the documentary culture of nineteenth-century France, and the dynamics of archive and documentary fiction.' - Dr Steven Wilson, School of Modern Languages, Queen's University BelfastAbout the author
Larry Duffy has taught French language, culture and literature in universities in Ireland, Australia and the UK, where he is currently Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. He is the author of numerous journal articles about the nineteenth-century encounter between literature, science and medicine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge
Authors: Larry Duffy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297549
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29753-2Published: 03 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45212-5Published: 03 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29754-9Published: 03 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-6478
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 261
Topics: European Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History, Fiction