Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the integrated mind
  • Jane Austen and self-consciousness
  • "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma
  • "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion
  • George Eliot and other-consciousness
  • "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch
  • "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda
  • Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness
  • "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure
  • "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Coda : the neurology of narrative.