CONTENTS:

James Theodore Hillhouse
The Makers of the British Novel
The Background of Mansfield Park
Critical Realism in Northanger Abbey
Scott’s Redgauntlet
History on the Hustings: Bulwer-Lytton’s Historical Novels of Politics
Thackeray, a Novelist by Accident
A Note on Dickens’ Humor
Self-Help and the Helpless in Bleak House
Form and Substance in the Bronte Novels
Charlotte Bronte’s "New" Gothic
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Trollope’s Orley Farm: Artistry Manque
George Eliot’s Originals
Middlemarch, George Eliot’s Masterpiece
Charles Reade’s Christie Johnstone: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pre-Raphaelite
George Meredith’s One of Our Conquerors
Hardy’s Major Fiction
The Spiritual Theme of George Gissing’s Born in Exile
Samuel Butler and Bloomsbury
Apology for Marlow
The Old Novel and the New