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How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.

Literary rhetorics --- Europe --- Observation (Educational method) --- Classroom observation --- Teachers --- Training of --- Observation. --- description and narration. --- literary realism. --- literature and knowledge.