4. A Napoleon of Heroines: Historical Myth in Vanity Fair

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Fiction and the Ways of Knowing
5. 1. Introduction: Fiction as Supplement 1
6. 2. The Socialization of Catherine Morland 23
7. 3. Wuthering Heights: The Love of a Sylph and a Gnome 37
8. 4. A Napoleon of Heroines: Historical Myth in Vanity Fair 52
9. 5. Master and Servant in Little Dorrit 64
10. 6. The Wanderings of Melmotte 74
11. 7. "Daniel Charisi" 86
12. 8. The Buried Giant of Egdon Heath 110
13. 9- Speech and Writing in Under Western Eyes 123
14. 10. Science in "Ithaca" 136
15. 11. Being and Nothing in A Passage to India 149
16. 12. Woolf and McTaggart 163
17. 13. The Magus of the Wizard of the West 179
18. Postscript 195
19. Notes 197