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Introduction; 1. The Novel and the Nation; 2. Cavaliers, Puritans, andRogues: English Fiction from 1485 to 1700; 3. Cross-Grained Crusoe:Defoe and the Contradictions of Englishness; 4. Histories of Rebellion:From 1688 to 1793; 5. The Novel of Suffering: Richardson, Fielding, andGoldsmith; 6. The Benevolent Robber: From Fielding to the 1790s; 7.Romanitic Toryism: Scott, Disraeli, and Others; 8. Tory Daughters andthe Politics of Marriage: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and ElizabethGaskell; 9. 'Turn Again, Dick Whittington!': Dickens and the Fiction ofthe City; 10. At Home and Abroad in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction:From Vanity Fair to The Secret Agent; 11. Puritan and ProvincialEnglands: From Emily Bronte to D. H. Lawrence; 12. From Forster toOrwell: The Novel of England's Destiny; 13. From Kipling toIndependence: Losing the Empire; 14. Round Tables: Chivalry and theTwentieth-Century English Novel- Sequence; 15. Inward Migrations:Multiculturalism, Anglicization, and Internal Exile; Conclusion: OnEnglishness and the Twenty-First Century Novel