1 Problems of Representation in 1869

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. A Note to the Reader ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Contrary to Nature: Heterosexual "Friendship'' in Mid-Victorian England
7. 1 Problems of Representation in 1869 19
8. 2 George Eliot's Experiments in Idiom 58
9. Part II "lntensities and Avoidances": Male Novelists in an Awkward Age, I89J-I9I3
10. 3 Friendship and New Women 93
11. 4 Ways of Looking On: Friendship in Early Modernist Fiction 128
12. Part III The War and Its Aftermath
13. 5 Friendship in Wartime 163
14. 6 Seeing Together: Woolf, Fry, and Friendship After the War 190
15. Conclusion: Seeing and the End of Friendship 219
16. Appendix The Conrad I Poradowska Correspondence 231
17. Notes 235
18. Selected References 293
19. Index 303