Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction / Katherine E. Kickel.

New York ; London : Routledge, [2007], ©2007.

xii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction : discovering the early modern imagination -- Investigating the imagination : the arrival of a Cartesian mediator in science and medicine -- Hearing imagining : rhetorical discordance in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- Imagining a novel's life : the generative power of authorship in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Making sense of novel reading : new curiosity concerning synaesthesia in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy -- Seeing imagining : the resurgence of A new theory of vision in Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho -- Conclusion : an enlightened imagination?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.