Daniel A. Novak: Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xv + 229. Cloth $ 90.00.

The monstrous bodies produced by Victorian realist photography and realist fiction, as we may deduce from Daniel Novak’s new book, are historically and conceptually located between the “unnatural hideousness” of Frankenstein’s patched-together creature and the disembodied human voices, eyes and arms J. Alfred Prufrock philosophises about on his night stroll.

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