Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Fictional Self-Making in a Changing World
Chapter One. The Victorian Fictional Autobiography in Context: Fiction, Reference, and Reader Expectations
Chapter Two. The Author and the Reader: The Individual and/as Narrative Community
Chapter Three. Domestic Interiors and the Fictionality of the Domestic: Esther Summerson Writes Home
Chapter Four. “No True Home” : Difficult Domesticity and Controlling Collaboration in David Copperfield and Villette
Coda. Fiction and Selfhood in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index