Prologue: Beyond the Reality Principle -- 1. The Angry Anarchist: Charles Dickens in Bleak House -- 2. The Phobic Anatomist: Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary -- 3. The Mutinous Patrician: Thomas Mann in Buddenbrooks -- Epilogue: Truths of Fictions
Notes
Lectures at the New York Public Library, October 2000
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index