Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Associationism, Affect and Literary Authority 1
5. 1 Feeling Bodies: Associationism and the Anti-Metaphorics of Materiality 27
6. 2 Symbolic Bodies: The Storyteller, Memory and Suffering in Boz’s ‘The Hospital Patient’ 54
7. 3 Metaphoric Bodies: The Professional Author, Sensation and Serialisation in Great Expectations 85
8. 4 Plastic Bodies: The Scientist, Vital Mechanics and Ethical Habits of Character in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone 117
9. 5 Represented Bodies: The Lawyer, Conclusions and Circumstantial Evidence in Lady Audley’s Secret 160
10. 6 Caring Bodies: The Reformer, Sartorial Exchange and the Work of the Novel in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon 190
11. Coda: In Defence of Victorian Optimism 219
12. Bibliography 222
13. Index 242