• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Real realism; 2. Talking about things; 3. Domestic violence; 4. The inhuman; 5. Brontë's variations on a theme by Sade; 6. A tropology of realism in Hard Times; 7. 'Zenobia in chains'; 8. Dreams of sleep; Notes; Index.

"...it is certainly a lively read and worthy of consideration by any hardy enough to venture into the quagmire of studies on realism." Joseph W. Childers

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Real realism; 2. Talking about things; 3. Domestic violence; 4. The inhuman; 5. Brontë's variations on a theme by Sade; 6. A tropology of realism in Hard Times; 7. 'Zenobia in chains'; 8. Dreams of sleep; Notes; Index.

"...it is certainly a lively read and worthy of consideration by any hardy enough to venture into the quagmire of studies on realism." Joseph W. Childers

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Real realism; 2. Talking about things; 3. Domestic violence; 4. The inhuman; 5. Brontë's variations on a theme by Sade; 6. A tropology of realism in Hard Times; 7. 'Zenobia in chains'; 8. Dreams of sleep; Notes; Index.

"...it is certainly a lively read and worthy of consideration by any hardy enough to venture into the quagmire of studies on realism." Joseph W. Childers