Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Chapter I. Introduction 1
5. Chapter II. Words in Fiction 10
6. Chapter III. Forms of Characterization 28
7. Chapter IV. Point of View 43
8. Chapter V. Style and Change: Jane Austen 64
9. Chapter VI. Image and Metaphor 85
10. Chapter VII. Novel and Romance 113
11. Chapter VIII. Resolution Scenes 123
12. Chapter IX. The Total Design of Novels 141
13. Chapter X. A Contrast of Passages from Emma, Villette, and Middlemarch 151
14. Chapter XI. Narrative and Dialogue: Large and Small Structures 166
15. Chapter XII. Evaluations 181
16. Bibliographical Appendix 199
17. Appendix of Tabulations 209
18. Index 289