Ⅰ The Contemporary English Novel 3
Ⅱ Waiting for Beckett:Quest and Re-Quest 19
Ⅲ Lawrence Durrell:Physical and Metaphysical Love 40
Ⅳ The Politics of Conscience:The Novels of C.P.Snow 62
Ⅴ Graham Greene's Demonical Heroes 85
Ⅵ The World of Elizabeth Bowen 107
Ⅶ Joyce Cary:The Moralist as Novelist 131
Ⅷ George Orwell:The White Man's Burden 148
Ⅸ The World of Evelyn Waugh:The Normally Insane 167
Ⅹ Normality Defined:The Novels of Henry Green 183
Ⅺ The Intimate World of Ivy Compton-Burnett 201
Ⅻ The Angries:Is There a Protestant in the House? 220
ⅩⅢ The Still Comic Music of Humanity:The Novels of Anthony Powell,Angus Wilson,and Nigel Dennis 238
ⅩⅣ The Novel as Moral Allegory:The Fiction of William Golding,Iris Murdoch,Rex Warner,and P.H.Newby 254
ⅩⅤ Composite 274
Afterword 293
Acknowledgments 295
Index 297