Revising the clinic : vision and representation in Victorian medical narrative and the novel / Meegan Kennedy.

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2010], ©2010.

x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-246) and index.