Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Mr. Harding's church music / Sherman Hawkins -- The warden: novel of vocation / Hugh L. Hennedy -- Barchester towers: the comedy of change / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- The warden and Barchester towers: the pastoral defined / James R. Kincaid -- The boundaries of barset / P.D. Edwards -- Trollope's Barchester towers: comic reformation / Robert M. Polhemus -- Barchester towers: victory's defeat / Andrew Wright -- The challenge of Barchester towers / Robin Gilmour -- Barchester towers and the charms of imperfection / Christopher Herbert.