Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beginning with No Beginning -- 1. The Errant Letter and the Whispering Gallery -- 2. The Displaced Self in the Novels of Daniel Defoe -- 3. Tom Jones: The "Bastard" of History -- 4. Tristram to the Hebrews: Some Notes on the Institution of a Canonic Text -- 5. Sir Walter Scott and the Institution of History: The Jacobite Novels in the Relation of Fathers -- 6. The Institution of the English Novel -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.