List of Illustrations
A Note on My Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Architectural Approach
The etymology of “approach” (n. s.)
The concept of approach (n. s. and v.): the “ancient” and the “modern” lines
The language of approach (v.): architectural and syntactical design
The traveler’s approach
The novelist’s approach
2 The Prepositional Building
The park gate lodge
The topographical view: angles and staffage
A Bridge to the next part: “A Village on, or across, the Thames”
3 The Topographical Page
The typographical landscape
The letters on the page
i. Fonts
ii. CAPITALS and Italics
iii. catchwords
iv. :- pointing
4 The Grammar in Between
The rise of grammar
The rise of the preposition
Clarissa and the little words: the avenue and the approach
i. Richardson as printer
ii. Clarissa and prepositions
iii. Clarissa as preposition
5 The Narrative Picturesque
Syntactical architecture in textual landscapes
i. Bunyan: “thinges . . . included in one word”
ii. Defoe: “in a Word”
iii. Haywood: “In fine, she was undone”
The narrative picturesque
i. Radcliffe and the prepositional phrase
ii. Burney and the psychological interior
iii. Austen and the approach to the interior
Coda A Topographical Page
Notes
Bibliography
Index