Table of 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.