Lawrence Rothfield
Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, and of Comparative Literature, and Faculty Director of the Center for Cultural Policy Studies. His interests include 19th-century British and French fiction; the novel; critical theory; literature and the human sciences; the politics and sociology of the arts and humanities.
He is the author of Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, and editor of Unsettling "Sensation": Cultural Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum Controversy (forthcoming in summer 2001 from Rutgers University Press).
Jacket illustration: Flaubert dissecting Emma Bovary.
La Parodie, Paris. 12 December 1869.
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The University of Michigan Library.