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Coda differentiating bw sympathy and empathy, reviewing argument and justifying term 'sympathetic realism'

Chapter on Eliot's minor work including The Lifted Veil. Skimmed sectons on Conrad and James.

chapter on Dickens and language. Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit.

Austen and imgining alternative selves as constitutive of sympthetic realism.

sympathy is a cognitive process, not a feeling.

Smithian sympathy may be more influential on 19th cent. realism than we typically admit--too much attention to Hume.