CONTENTS
General editors' Preface = ⅸ
Preface = ⅹ
PART ONE
1 Tackling the text = 3
Novels discussed
Waverley / Sir Walter Scott
Sons and Lovers / D. H. Lawrence
2 Constructing a basic analysis = 29
Novels discussed
Mansfield Park / Jane Austen
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bront e ··
3 Looking at aspects of a novel = 44
Novel discussed : The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James
4 Coping with different kinds of novel = 61
Novels discussed
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens
5 Tackling a long and difficult novel = 81
Novels discussed
Middlemarch / George Eliot
Bleak House / Charles Dickens
6 Writing an essay = 97
7 Writing a more complicated essay = 111
PART TWO
8 New approaches = 121
Novels discussed
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bront e ··
Wuthering Heights / Emily Bront e ··
The Mill on the Floss / George Eliot
9 New readings = 145
Novels discussed
Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy
Emma / Jane Austin
10 New novels = 180
Novels discussed
Waterland / Graham Swift
The Color Purple / Alice Walker
Further reading = 202