Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Table of Figures IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1: Description and Narration 32
7. Chapter 2: Before Observation (Le Diable boiteux) 57
8. Chapter 3: Observation (Les Nuits de Paris) 81
9. Chapter 4: Failing Observations 101
10. Chapter 5: Another Form of Observation? (Sherlock Holmes) 143
11. Conclusion: Literary Observation after 1900 165
12. Bibliography 173
13. Index 182