The English Novel In History 1840-95 (Novel in History)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
PROLOGUE: A PATTERN AND A PURPOSE......Page 14
NARRATIVE WITH CLOUDS OF GLORY......Page 16
NATURE KNOWS BEST: THE BRONTËS AND THACKERAY......Page 20
RHETORIC AND HISTORY: SEQUENCE IN THE BRONTËS, THACKERAY AND EARLY DICKENS......Page 37
NARRATIVE IN THE WASTELAND......Page 50
MOVING ON......Page 64
PROLOGUE: GETTING COORDINATES......Page 78
CONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL (SOCIAL) TIME......Page 80
MEDIATE POWER......Page 97
EMERGENT FORM......Page 110
PROLOGUE: THE SYMPHONY......Page 126
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS SOCIETY?......Page 130
THE ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT WITH CORPORATE ORDER......Page 143
CRUISING THE BOUNDARIES OF DIFFERENCE: CLASS, PERSONALITY, SYSTEM......Page 156
Class differences: seeing things whole in Dickens......Page 158
Personal differences: Trollope and life in nuance......Page 162
Systemic differences: George Eliot and the world as language......Page 167
4 DILEMMAS OF DIFFERENCE......Page 178
DIFFERENCE AS DUALITY: CLUB, CLASS, CLAN......Page 179
HOME IS WHERE THE FAULT-LINE IS......Page 193
RUNNING COSTS OF THE MARRIAGE MARKET......Page 208
WOMEN AND TIME......Page 219
NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES......Page 236
TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOURCES......Page 241
INDEX......Page 252