Some blunders -- Embarrassing Bovary -- Looking good: style and Its absence in George Eliot -- Hanging together in Henry James -- Afterword "J'ai envie d'foutre le camp."
Summary
With significant new readings of a number of 19th-century works such as Eliot's 'Middlemarch', Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary', and James's 'The Princess Casamassima', Kent Puckett reveals how the novel achieves its coherence thanks to minor mistakes that novels both represent and make
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index