Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tom Jones and the Odyssey
  • Tristram Shandy and the art of gossip
  • "Female difficulties" : Charlotte Lennox's the Female quixote and Frances Burney's Camilla
  • Waverley and the Aeneid : Scott's art of allusion
  • Jane Austen and the pleasure principle
  • Asking versus telling : one aspect of Jane Austen's idea of conversation
  • "A contrariety of emotion" : Jane Austen's ambivalent lovers in Pride and prejudice
  • Once more, with feeling : the structure of Mansfield Park
  • Comic symmetry in Jane Austen's Emma
  • "The sentient target of death" : Jane Austen's prayers
  • The genesis of Evelyn Waugh's comic vision : Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and fall
  • Traditional comedy and the comic mask in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim.