Introduction / Adam Roberts
1. Eliot's Double Mirror / Adam Roberts
2. Sappho's Apple / Adam Roberts
3. Lydgate Winces: Character and Realism / Adam Roberts
4. Hypocrisy and the Judgment of Men / Adam Roberts
5. Ladislaw / Adam Roberts
6. Myth, Middlemarch and the Mill: Out in Mid-Sea / Adam Roberts
7. Epigraphy: Beginnings and Ends / Adam Roberts
Postscript: The Flute inside the Bell / Adam Roberts
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index.