Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. A Note on Citations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. On Textual Production 11
7. CHAPTER TWO. The Urbane Sublime 22
8. CHAPTER THREE. Transcendental Aesthetics 40
9. CHAPTER FOUR. The Discovery of Consciousness 58
10. CHAPTER FIVE. The Economy of Sensibility 82
11. CHAPTER SIX. Goldsmith's Endings 113
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Vicar of Wakefield: The Invention of Plot 141
13. CHAPTER EIGHT. She Stoops to Conquer: From Farce to Organism 181
14. CHAPTER NINE. Sheridan's Semiotics 196
15. CHAPTER TEN. Beaumarchais 's Stagecraft 239
16. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Sterne's Stories 261
17. CHAPTER TWELVE. Wordsworth's Old Gray Stone 301
18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Touchstones 362
19. Envoi 381
20. Notes 385
21. Works Cited 449
22. Index 477