Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge

By Larry Duffy

Book Overview

This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century - Gustave Flaubert and mile Zola - incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137297530
• ISBN13: 9781137297532
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"