Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

DAVID PAYNE received his PhD in 1998 from Columbia University, where he held a Whiting and other fellowships. He has taught at Columbia, Auburn and Georgia State universities

• List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Cockney and the Prostitute: Dickens, Pickwick Papers , and Oliver Twist The Pathos of Distance: Thackeray, Serialization, and Vanity Fair Dickens Breaks Out: The Public Readings and Little Dorrit A Dance of Indecision: George Eliot's Shorter Fiction The Production of Belief: The Serial, Middlemarch Epilogue: The Sacred Monster: The Serial Novelists' Reenchantments Notes Bibliography Index