Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-277) and index.
Contents:
Novel knowledge : judgment, experience, experiment -- Enlightenment fiction and the scientific hypothesis -- Matters of fact : virtual witnessing and the public in Hogarth's narratives -- Hume's learned and conversible worlds (with Robin Valenza) -- The novel as modern myth : Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula -- Tom Jones and the public -- Prison reform and the sentence of narration in The vicar of Wakefield -- Impersonal violence : the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams -- A postscript on my gross anatomy lab -- Rational choice in love : Les liaisons dangereuses -- Rhetoricality : on the modernist return of rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery).
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