Flaubert Zola And The Incorporation Of Disciplinary Knowledge

Download or read book Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge written by L. Duffy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile 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.