The novelist Meredith is renowned for his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. This work examines Meredith's novels in the light of 20th-century literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Introduction - The Ordeal of Richard Feveral - The Novels of the 1860s - The Adventures of Harry Richmond - Beauchamp's Career - The Egoist -The Tragic Comedians - Diana of the Crossways - The Final Phase - Notes - Bibliography - Index