Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. Tom Jones and the Odyssey 1
7. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Gossip 21
8. “Female Difficulties” Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Frances Burney’s Camilla 35
9. Waverley and the Aeneid: Scott’s Art of Allusion 55
10. Jane Austen and the Pleasure Principle 75
11. Asking versus Telling: One Aspect of Jane Austen’s Idea of Conversation 95
12. “A Contrariety of Emotion” Jane Austen’s Ambivalent Lovers in Pride and Prejudice 117
13. Once More, with Feeling: The Structure of Mansfield Park 129
14. Comic Symmetry in Jane Austen’s Emma 145
15. “The Sentient Target of Death” Jane Austen’s Prayers 163
16. The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision: Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall 181
17. Traditional Comedy and the Comic Mask in Kingsley Amis’s 203
18. Afterword 221
19. Works Cited 225