Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Acknowledgements (as the Crisis of Credit) - Introduction: 'The Outside as Inside': Echo's(') Narrative Domain - 'The Persistence of the Vocalic': Scott and the Early Strategies of Accommodation - 'A-Filiative Families and Subversive Reproduction': Gossip in Jane Austen - 'Parlour's Parler: 'The Chatter of Tongues within...' Wuthering Heights - 'In All Matter of Places, All at Wunst': Writing, Gossip, and the State of Information in Bleak House - 'This Alarming Hearsay': Public Opinion and the Crisis of the Liberal Imagination in Middlemarch - 'Too Meeny': Jude, Dorian, and the Life of the Secondary - Index