Victorian Structures: Architecture, Society, and Narrative

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “All Men Are Builders”: Victorian Structures
	“The Lamp of Sacrifice”: Ruskin’s Gothic Chronotope
	A Ruskinian Methodology
1 Within the Walls: Freedom and Obedience in Little Dorrit
	Forms of Obedience and Obedience to Forms: Building the Walls
	Enclosed Spaces, Porous Borders: Pushing against the Walls
	Constructing Fictions
	Narrative Forms: Connecting the Walls
2 Constructing Novel Time in Ordinary Time: The Architectural Structure of Eliot’s Realism
	Constructing Ordinary Time
	Constructing the Architecture of the Past
	Constructing Perceptions of the Present
	Constructing “The Natur o’ Things”
3 “As We Lay Stone on Stone”: Mediating the Past in The Mayor of Casterbridge
	“A Curious Imperfection in Nature’s Powers of Continuity”: The Continuity of Generational Memory
	Connecting “Forgotten and Following Ages with Each Other”: The Mayor of Casterbridge’s Disorderly History
	Survivals
	Mediated Narratives of History
	“To Fetch it Back Entirely is Impossible; Nature Won’t Stand So Much as That”: Restoration and Preservation
4 “Modern Thought . . . in Such Decrepit and Superseded Chambers”: Disintegrating Structures in Jude the Obscure
	Living in Structures
	“Accentuated by the Rottenness of the Stones”: Maintaining Christminster
	“The Effect of a True”: Making Associations
	“Rusty and Irksome Moulds”: Narrative Structures
Conclusion: “The Action of the Imagination”: Building Perceptions of Truth
Notes
Works Cited
Index