Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "George Eliot" and the Fables of the Liberal Intellectual -- 2. Education and the Transfigurations of Realism -- 3. Literary Consciousness and the Vacancy of the Individual -- 4. Genteel Image and Democratic Example -- 5. Imperfection and Compensation -- 6. Realism and Romance -- 7. The Supervision of Art and the Culture of the Sickroom -- 8. Private Fragments and Public Monuments -- 9. Domesticity and Teratology -- Conclusion: Reproduction/Quotation/Criticism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.