pt. 1. Beginnings: Romantic poetry: souls and stones -- Jane Austen: loving and leaving -- Charlotte and Emily Brontë: masters and mad dogs -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: public men and private views -- pt. 2. Reactions: Mary Shelley: fiends and families -- William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens: angels and asylums -- George Eliot: women and world history -- Bram Stoker: semidemons and secretaries -- pt. 3. Returns: Anthony Trollope: fortune hunters and friends -- Thomas Hardy: modern men and milkmaids -- E.M. Forster: gasoline and goddesses -- Conclusion: suicides and sanctities.