| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| 1 | Medicine and Mimesis: The Contours of a Configuration | 3 |
| 2 | Disarticulating Madame Bovary: Flaubert and the Medicalization of the Real | 15 |
| 3 | Paradigms and Professionalism: Balzacian Realism in Discursive Context | 46 |
| 4 | "A New Organ of Knowledge": Medical Organicism and the Limits of Realism in Middlemarch | 84 |
| 5 | On the Realism/Naturalism Distinction: Some Archaeological Considerations | 120 |
| 6 | From Diagnosis to Deduction: Sherlock Holmes and the Perversion of Realism | 130 |
| 7 | The Pathological Perspective: Clinical Realism's Decline and the Emergence of Modernist Counter-Discourse | 148 |
| Epilogue: Toward a New Historicist Methodology | 175 |
| Notes | 193 |
| Index | 227 |
