Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures ix
4. Introduction. Ethology, or the Science of Character 1
5. Chapter 1. Plasticity, Form, and the Physics of Character in Eliot’s Middlemarch 42
6. Chapter 2. Sensing Character in Impressions of Theophrastus Such 75
7. Chapter 3. The Racialization of Surface in Hardy’s Sketch of Temperament and Hereditary Science 103
8. Chapter 4. Schopenhauer and the Determination of Women’s Character 144
9. Chapter 5. The Intimate Pulse of Reality; or, Schreiner’s Ethological Realism 180
10. Coda. Spontaneous Generations of Character between Realism and Modernism 220
11. Acknowledgments 245
12. Bibliography 249
13. Index 275