pt. 1. Mid-Victorian: constraints and masquerades: ch. 1. The nocturnal Dickens: A palimpsest of motives in David Copperfield ; Enigmas of power and impotence: Little Dorrit -- ch. 2. George Eliot and the idolatries of the superego: Body bruised to pleasure soul: The mill on the Floss ; "A great deal of slow poisoning": Daniel Deronda -- pt. 2. Late-Victorians: tragic encounters: ch. 3. Hardy: "full-hearted evensong": "We are the children of the soil": Tess of the d'Ubervilles ; "The spirit unappeased and peregrine": Jude the Obscure -- ch. 4. Conrad: against nature: "Nothing can touch me": Lord Jim ; Fictions of discourse, purpose, and identity in Nostromo -- pt. 3. Modernist: beginning the revaluation: ch. 5. "Become who you are": the optative world of D.H. Lawrence: "The trembling instability" of Women in love ; Choosing between the quick and the dead: three versions of Lady Chatterley's lover -- ch. 6. New heaven, new earth: Joyce and the art of reprojection.
