Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note and Acknowledgments -- Chronological Note -- List of Abbreviations -- I. 'To Define the...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note and Acknowledgments -- Chronological Note -- List of Abbreviations -- I. 'To Define the Thackerayan Oneness' -- The Method Proposed -- Encouragement from Bibliography -- II. The Oneness of the Materials -- The Consanguinity of the Personages -- The Stretch of Scene and Time -- III. The Oneness of Form and Manner -- The Lack of a Formal Plot -- Continuity -- Continuity: Certain Methods -- Continuity: The Method of Imagery -- Continuity: The Method of Epic Imagery -- Intercommunications -- Continuity: Prose Style -- IV. The Content of the Authorial 'I' -- The Limits of Self-Expression for a Novelist -- Thackeray and the Content of the 'I' -- The Limits of Autobiography -- V. The Author's Conduct of His Commentary -- The Novelist as Dramatist or Historian -- 'Panorama' and 'Scene' -- The Status of the Thing Seen -- An Addition Made to the Scene -- The Commentary in the Action -- The Action in the Commentary -- Time Standing Still -- Variety -- The Links with the Shorter Writings -- Story and Musing -- VI. The Author's Truthfulness of Personage and Action -- 'This Person Writing Strives to Tell the Truth' -- Truthfulness of Personage -- Complete Truthfulness of Personage -- Milly Costigan -- Beatrix Esmond -- Character Various within Itself -- The Puzzle of Character in Time -- The Ruling Passion -- Surprise of Character and Actions -- Few 'Tricks of Art' -- Fragments of Formal Plot -- VII. The Author's Philosophy -- Lack of Logic -- No Lack of Thought -- Truth About the Whole Range of Society -- On Conditions of Authors -- New Truth About Emotions and Moral Character -- The 'Form' of Truth New and Old -- 'We May Never Forget Truth' -- Commentary, Early, Middle and Late -- Sermonizing.
