in the arts and social sciences of the past. There is a rather abbreviated discussion of what exactly a metaphor is. David Leary's Metaphors in the history ofpsychology is cited but not discussed. Lacan's ideas about metaphor and metonymy in relation to neurosis are not mentioned. The chapter closes with the argument that the "disappearance" of hysteria after 1900 was due to over-extension of t...

This article considers late-nineteenth-century questioning of the progressive power accumulated knowledge by examining two novels: Gustave Flaubert’s final, incomplete novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881), and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871–72). Few scholars have analysed Eliot Flaubert comparatively. Indeed, there is a habit in criticism regarding them these exact contemporaries as almost antit...

1 Introduction. . .