Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge

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This book is about how France’s two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century - Gustave Flaubert and Emile 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.