Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Series Preface viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 George Eliot’s Moral Intelligence 72
7. 2 Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains 118
8. 3 Acting Clever in Henry James 157
9. 4 H. G. Wells’s Very Ordinary Brains 187
10. Coda: Virginia Woolf’s Hereditary Genius 238
11. Bibliography 256
12. Index 277