Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Master Narratives -- How pleasant to meet Mr Fielding:the Narrator as Hero in Tom Jones -- The Narrator as Hero in Tom Jones -- 'Where then lies the difference?': the (Ante)PostModernity of Tristram Shandy -- Old Mortality: Editor and Narrator -- Mathilda - Who Knew Too Much -- 'Perswasion' in Persuasion -- Wuthering Heights as Bifurcated Novel -- Negotiating Mary Barton -- Nell, Alice and Lizzy: Three Sisters amidst the Grotesque -- The Androgyny of Bleak House -- Middlemarch and 'the Home Epic' -- The Ghost of Doubt: Writing, Speech and Language in Lord Jim -- Liking or Disliking: Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence.