Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Novelistic Fictionality

2. George Eliot: Immanent Victorian

3. Great Expectations: Modern Belief and Victorian Fictionality

4. The History of Revenge: A Tale of Two Cities

5. Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Hardy’s Anthropology of the Novel

6. What Would Napoléon Do? Historical, Fictional, and Counterfactual Characters

7. Formalism and Time

Notes

Index