Abstract
Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction: From Sketch to Novel: 1. Modern change and aestheticized stasis in the early nineteenth century 2. Plotless styles in novel history and theory Part II. Journalism, Modernity, and Stasis in The Paris Sketch Book and The History of Pendennis: 3. Capitalist excess, gentlemanly atavism: Thackeray's devils in his early sketches 4. Pendennis's stasis and Thackeray's professional sensibilities Part III. Styles of Stillness and Motion: Charles Dickens's Lower-Class Descriptions: 5. Sketches by Boz: narrative form and market culture 6. Narrating stasis, describing reform: Nicholas Nickleby Part IV. Elizabeth Gaskell's Individualism, from 'Sketches among the Poor' to Cranford: 7. 'Leave me, leave me to repose': Gaskell's descriptive individualism 8. Cranford's individualistic style Conclusion: 'nothing democratic': intelligence, abstraction, and avant-garde plotlessness Notes Bibliography Index.
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