Author:
Duffy, Larry, author.
ImprintNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Descriptionxvii, 261 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Knowledge, incorporated -- Madame Bovary and the incorporation of pharmacy -- Medical and literary discourses of disciplinary struggle and regulation -- Diagnosing the Aveugle, correcting the body : ophthalmia and orthopaedics -- Correcting the Aveugle : monstrosity, Alinisme, and the haunting of the social body -- La bete humaine and the incorporation of psychiatry : du monstre lombrosien a l'anormal zolien, de la mecanique a la thermodynamique -- Textual healing : Le Docteur Pascal's incorporation of hypodermic therapy -- Taxidermy, taxonomy, and l'esthetique naturaliste.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
Note:"Flaubert, Zola and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge transcends traditional author studies to focus on institutional dimensions of professional practices and knowledge concerning the body in nineteenth-century France, and on their articulation by literary and other texts. It examines how institutional developments in medicine and pharmacy are 'incorporated' within literary texts, arguing that such incorporation reflects acute concern with the body, and with knowledge considered metaphorically as body. In its innovative focus on incorporation as metaphor, the book explores theoretical relationships between body and text, exploiting the rich metaphorical potential of the institutional, professional body, constituted by discourse and associated with bodies of disciplinary knowledge. The institutional body 'incorporates' itself; the literary text 'incorporates' knowledge precisely about the body's incorporation of substances and practices. Offering cultural history of certain medical, pharmaceutical and scientific discourses, this book problematizes the boundaries between literary and other forms of discourse, themselves analogical to boundaries between different fields of disciplinary knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.
