Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250) and index.
Contents
Character insecurity in Sense and sensibility / Alex Woloch -- The make believe of a middle : on (not) knowing where you are in Daniel Deronda / Hilary M. Schor -- Before and afterwardsness in Henry James / Kent Puckett -- Everyday life in Anne Brontë / Amanda Claybaugh -- The clerk's tale : characterizing the middle in Dombey and son / Suzanne Daly -- Pendennis's stasis and journalism's work / Amanpal Garcha -- Dilatory description and the pleasures of accumulation : toward a history of novelistic length / Amy M. King -- An anatomy of suspense : the pleasurable, critical, ethical, erotic middle of The woman in white / Caroline Levine -- The latent middle in Morris's News from nowhere / Mario Ortiz-Robles.
