Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction (Oxford World's Classics)

Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 11
Why the 'Single Print of a Foot'? -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719......Page 19
Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? -- John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure {Fanny Hill), 1749......Page 29
Who is Tom Jones's Father? -- Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749......Page 37
Slop Slip -- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, 1760-7......Page 43
Pug: dog or bitch? -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814......Page 49
How vulgar is Mrs Elton? -- Jane Austen, Emma, 1816......Page 55
Whose side is Hawk-eye on? -- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826......Page 60
What does Mr Pickwick retire from? -- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1837......Page 66
Why is Fagin hanged and why isn't Pip prosecuted? -- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838, and Great Expectations, 1861......Page 70
Who gets what in Heathcliff's will? -- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847......Page 82
Can Jane Eyre be happy? -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847......Page 86
How many pianos has Amelia Sedley? -- W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848......Page 99
Will she ever come back? -- Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, 1849......Page 106
What are the Prynnes doing in Boston? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850......Page 114
What happens to Mrs Woodcourt? -- Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853......Page 120
The Barchester Towers that never was -- Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, 1857......Page 127
Why doesn't the Reverend Irwine speak up for Hetty? -- George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859......Page 135
How good an oarswoman is Maggie Tulliver? -- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860......Page 145
How good a swimmer is Magwitch? -- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1859; R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island......Page 153
What, precisely, does Miss Gwilt's purple flask contain? -- Wilkie Collins, Armadale, 1866......Page 161
Lemon or ladle? -- George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1871......Page 167
Why 'Captain' Newton? -- Anthony Trollope, Ralph the Heir, 1871......Page 174
What is Elfride's rope made of? -- Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873......Page 178
Is Daniel Deronda circumcised? -- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, 1876......Page 187
Is Black Beauty gelded? -- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877......Page 195
What does Mrs Charmond say to Grace? -- Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, 1887......Page 199
Who will Angel marry next? -- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891......Page 206
What cure for the Madwoman in the Attic? -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper, 1892......Page 210
Who is George Leach? -- Jack London, The Sea-Wolf, 1904......Page 218
Wanted: deaf-and-dumb dog feeder -- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902......Page 224
Whose daughter is Nancy? -- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915......Page 228
Clarissa's invisible taxi -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 1925......Page 233
Tristram Shandy......Page 243
Oliver Twist, Great Expectations......Page 244
Shirley......Page 245
The Mill on the Floss......Page 246
Felix Holt, the Radical......Page 247
The Woodlanders......Page 248
The Good Soldier......Page 249
Mrs Dalloway......Page 250