Table of Contents:
  • "The licensed trespasser" : the omniscient narrator in Middlemarch
  • Joyce and the common life
  • Thomas Mann's comic spirit
  • The art of ambivalence : The good soldier
  • What May knew in The beast in the jungle
  • Leon Edel's Henry James
  • Censorship and self-censorship in the fiction of D.H. Lawrence
  • Lawrence and American fiction
  • "Sex consciousness" and the novel : A room of one's own
  • A contest of motives: T.E. Lawrence in The seven pillars of wisdom
  • Character in Saul Bellow's novels
  • Counterlives : Philip Roth in autobiography and fiction
  • Four decades of contemporary American fiction
  • Recent novels.