Table of Contents

I. Views of the Dickens World The Uncles of Dickens Harry Levin The Courtship of the Void: The World of Hard Times Melvyn Haberman The Innocent I: Dickens' Influence on Victorian Autobiography Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi II. George Eliot and the World of Middlemarch George Eliot and the Modern Temper Henry Auster The Limits of Dialogue in Middlemarch Robert Kiely Optic and Semiotic in Middlemarch J. Hillis Miller III. Private Worlds Thackeray's Self-Consciousness Winslow Rogers The Two Worlds of Charlotte Yonge David Brownell Trollope, Byron, and the Conventionalities Donald D. Stone Comedy, Tragedy, And The Spirit of Critical Intelligence in Richard Feverel Richard C. Stevenson A World of Literature: Gissing's New Grub Street Jerome H. Buckley IV. Other Worlds Broad Canvas, Narrow Perspective: The Problem of the English Historical Novel in the Nineteenth Century John Maynard King Arthur in Victorian Fiction David Staines Some Erring Children in Children's Literature: The World of Victorian Religious Strife in Miniature Robert Lee Wolff Performing Heroinism: The Myth of Corinne Ellen Moers The Counterworld of Victorian Fiction and The Woman in White U. C. Knoepflmacher City Matters: City Minds Philip Fisher Victorian "Extraterrestrials" Mark R. Hillegas