Keywords
medicine
literature
Hilarión Frías y Soto
female body
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Abstract
The relationship between literature and the periodical press has been deeply analyzed by the historiography of 19th-century Mexican literature. As a result of writers’ participation in the nation-building process, the periodical press became crucial as the main mechanism for disseminating literary projects with nationalist features. Moreover, practitioners of other fields, such as medicine, employed fictional narratives of a similar nature not only to transmit general notions of their discipline but also to contribute to the formation of citizenship, modeling their bodies through disciplinary discourses. This article focuses on the intersection between medicine and literature, analyzing the novel El Hijo del Estado (1882), by writer and physician Hilarión Frías y Soto, as a literary artifact that –inscribed in the columns of the newspaper El Diario del Hogar– contributed to the dissemination of both clinical and moralizing notions, primarily concerning female bodies.Authors who publish in Bibliographica automatically accept the following terms:
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