pt. 1. Women's fates and factory questions: 1. The romance of the female paternalist: Frances Trollope's female knights
Charlotte Brontë and the dynamics of paternalism
Elizabeth Gaskell and the politics of negotiation
2. Gentility and the dangers of aspiration: Elizabeth Stone and the gentrification of Manchester
Geraldine Jewsbury's romance of work
George Eliot and the choice against gentility
pt. 2. Narrative history and the social record: 3. The pastoral argument: The natural history of character in Oliver Twist
The aristocratic pastoral of Alton Locke
The maternal pastoral of Ruth
4. Politics and the recovery of story: Looking back into the future: Sybil
The interrupted stories of Hard times
"Toward a more assured end": Felix Holt.
