Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. I
4. Memoirs of a Virtuous Family 3
5. An Apologie for the Scepticall Reader 11
6. Mrs. Bennet and the Dark Gods: The Key to Jane Austen 20
7. A Note on Dickens’ Humor 27
8. Sex in the Modern Novel 42
9. Hands Across the Sea 50
10. Calculus Racked Him 58
11. II
12. A Classical Scholar 69
13. Bliss Perry 76
14. Arthur Woodhouse: Scholar, Critic, Humanist 79
15. Τ. S. Eliot 97
16. III
17. Tudor Humanism and Henry VIII 103
18. The Humanist Critic 119
19. The Humanities 131
20. Tradition and Experience 143
21. Literature 164
22. Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century 180
23. The Humanities 207
24. Literary History and Literary Criticism 234