Fiction and the Ways of Knowing: Essays on British Novels
Preface 1. Introduction: Fiction as Supplement 2. The Socialization of Catherine Morland, an application of anthropological theory to Northanger Abbey 3. Wuthering Heights: The Love of a Sylph and a Gnome, an exploration of alchemical and hermetic lore 4. A Napoleon of Heroines: Historical Myth in Vanity Fair, a study of political imagination 5. Master and Servant in Little Dorrit, an analysis derived from Hegelian social thought 6. The Wanderings of Melmotte, an estimate of cultural symbols in The Way We Live Now 7. "Daniel Charisi", an assessment of Daniel Deronda in the history of ideas 8. The Buried Giant of Egdon Heath, an archeology of folklore in The Return of the Native 9. Speech and Writing in Under Western Eyes, a test case for recent theories of language 10. Science in "Ithaca", an examination of the physical sciences in Ulysses 11. Being and Nothing in A Passage to India, a meditation on its religious structure 12. Woolf and McTaggart, an interrogation of the metaphysics in To the Lighthouse 13. The Magus of the Wizard of the West, a tracing of myth and ritual patterns Postscript Notes