Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-246) and index.
Contents
Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.
