Points of departure: old and new moralities -- Traversing the interval: Dickens -- Transitions: the Brontës, Gaskell, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy -- Thresholds: Conrad -- Connective: Forster -- Rites of trespass: Lawrence -- Effigy and transfiguration: Woolf -- Afterwords/death bequeathed: Beckett and Nabokov.