ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. ONE. Medicine and Mimesis: The Contours of a Configuration 3
6. TWO. Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Medicalization of the Real 15
7. THREE. Paradigms and Professionalism: Balzacian Realism in Discursive Context 46
8. FOUR. “A New Organ of Knowledge”: Medical Organicism and the Limits of Realism in Middlemarch 84
9. FIVE. On the Realism/Naturalism Distinction: Some Archaeological Considerations 120
10. SIX. From Diagnosis to Deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the Perversion of Realism 130
11. SEVEN. The Pathological Perspective: Clinical Realism’s Decline and the Emergence of Modernist Counter-Discourse 148
12. EPILOGUE. Toward a New Historicist Methodology 175
13. NOTES 193
14. INDEX 227