Abstract
Contents: Introduction Part 1 Illness: Melancholia and the poetics of visibility: Charlotte Smith's Elegaic Sonnets Contagion, sympathy, invisibility: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Part 2 Healing: The journey to heal melancholia: Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters fron Norway Scientific botany as therapy: Charlotte Smith's literature Invisibility and the history of trauma: Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy. Part 3 Social Justice: Seeing poverty: Smith's Rural Walks and Wollstonecraft's Original Stories as fictional ethnography Unsentimental seeing: Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman and didactic children's literature Afterword Bibliography Index.
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