Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Reform Era: An Ethological Age
  • 2. From Person to Text: Character and the Problem of Representation
  • 3. Representing Representation: Walter Scott and Charles Lamb
  • 4. The Politics of Unity: Hazlitt and Character Revisited
  • 5. 'The Loved Abortion of a Thing Designed': Hartley Coleridge and the Drive for Dissolution
  • 6. 'A Series of Small Inconstancies': Letitia Landon and the Politics of Consistency
  • 7. Character and Paranoia in Beddoes' Death's Jest-Book and Peacock's Crotchet Castle
  • Afterword: Meta-characterisation - Dickens' Sketches by Boz and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
  • Bibliography
  • Index