Table of Contents
Contents:
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the Fifteenth Anniversary EditionIntroduction: Dialectical Method in Literary History
PART I QUESTIONS OF TRUTHChapter One: The Destabilization of Generic CategoriesChapter Two: The Evidence of the Senses: Secularization and Epistemological CrisisChapter Three: Histories of the Individual
PART II QUESTIONS OF VIRTUEChapter Four: The Destabilization of Social CategoriesChapter Five: Absolutism and Capitalist Ideology: The Volatility of ReformChapter Six: Stories of Virtue
PART III THE DIALECTICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE NOVELChapter Seven: Romance Transformations (I) : Cervantes and the Disenchantment of the WorldChapter Eight: Romance Transformations (II) : Bunyan and Literalization of AllegoryChapter Nine: Parables of the Younger Son (I) : Defoe and the Naturalization of DesireChapter Ten: Parables of the Younger Son (II) : Swift and the Containment of DesireChapter Eleven: The Institutionalization of Conflict (I) : Richardson and the Domestication of ServiceChapter Twelve: The Institutionalization of Conflict (II) : Fielding and the Instrumentality of Belief
ConclusionNotesIndex