Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; How pleasant to meet Mr. Fielding: the narrator as hero in Tom Jones, W.B. Hutchings; ’Where then lies the difference?’: the (ante)-postmodernity of Tristram Shandy, Jayne Lewis; Old Mortality: editor and narrator, Mary Wedd; Mathilda - who knew too much, Frederick Burwick; ’Perswasion’ in Persuasion, Jane Stabler; Wuthering Heights as bifurcated novel, Frederick Burwick; Negotiating Mary Barton, Richard Gravil; Nell, Alice, Lizzie: three sisters amid the grotesque, Alan Shelston; The androgyny of Bleak House, Richard Gravil; Middlemarch and ’the Home Epic’, Nicola Trott; The ghost of doubt: writing speech and language in Lord Jim, Gerard Barrett; Liking or disliking: Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence, Michael O’Neill; Index.

About the Author

Richard Gravil