Fiction and purpose in Utopia, Rasselas, The mill on the Floss, and Women in love

Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-11 Utopia: Form as Model....Pages 12-31 Utopia: the Pleasure Ethic....Pages 32-51 Utopia: Proximate Ends and Means....Pages 52-69 Utopia: Form as Discipline....Pages 70-82 Rasselas: Form as Model....Pages 83-107 Rasselas: Ends....Pages 108-132 Rasselas: Fiction and Acceptance....Pages 133-153 The Mill on the Floss: Purpose without Purpose....Pages 154-169 The Mill on the Floss: Fiction and Fantasy....Pages 170-190 The Mill on the Floss: Naturalism and Purpose....Pages 191-212 The Mill on the Floss: ‘Which is the way home?’....Pages 213-230 Women in Love: Dead Ends....Pages 231-248 Women in Love: Life as End....Pages 249-266 Women in Love: Fiction as Fantasy....Pages 267-284 Women in Love: ‘I want to be disinherited’....Pages 285-302 Conclusion....Pages 303-307 Back Matter....Pages 308-320