How Novels Think - The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. How Novels Think 1(26) How the Misfit Became a Moral Protagonist 27(26) When Novels Made Nations 53(26) Why a Good Man Is Hard to Find in Victorian Fiction 79(26) The Polygenetic Imagination 105(32) The Necessary Gothic 137(18) Notes 155(32) Index 187