Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Background into foreground -- 1. Openness: Openness versus illiberalism -- Dissenting disabilities and the novel -- 2. All sorts and conditions: The variety of dissent -- The variety of dissenting views on the novel -- The variety of dissent and the novel -- 3. Places and politics: The regionalism of dissent -- Dissent and the city -- Radicalism and dissent -- 4. The presence of dissent -- 5. The Brontes -- 6. Mrs. Gaskell -- 7. George Eliot: Introductory -- Adam Bede -- Felix Holt -- 8. Charles Dickens: What Dickens knew -- Stereotypes -- Dickens and the anti-dissenting tradition -- The Dickens tradition -- 9. Mrs. Oliphant and the tradition -- 10. Was there a revolution in Tanner's Lane? -- 11. The sense of an ending -- Appendix: Charlotte Bronte's Ms. 'Julia'.
