The Victorian "multiverse": Bleak House, Felix Holt -- The cant of reform: The warden -- Mutual recrimination: Hard times, North and South -- An ultra-Dickensian novel: The woman in white -- Undoing by outdoing continued: Great expectations, The moonstone -- Inimitability regained: The mystery of Edwin Drood -- "That arduous invention": Middlemarch -- Conclusions: Realism, revaluation, and realignment.
