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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction: The Limits of Not Quite
Sir Thomas More: A Man for One Season
Shakespeare in Bloom
Jane Austen’s Heroic Consciousness
The All and the If: God and Metaphor in Melville
Half Against Flaubert
Gogol’s Realism
What Chekhov Meant by Life
Knut Hamsun’s Christian Perversions
Virginia Woolf’s Mysticism
Thomas Mann: The Master of the Not Quite
D. H. Lawrence’s Occultism
T. S. Eliot’s Christian Anti-Semitism
George Steiner’s Unreal Presence
Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy of Fiction
Thomas Pynchon and the Problem of Allegory
Against Paranoia: The Case of Don DeLillo
John Updike’s Complacent God
The Monk of Fornication: Philip Roth’s Nihilism
Toni Morrison’s False Magic
Julian Barnes and the Problem of Knowing Too Much
W. G. Sebald’s Uncertainty
The Broken Estate: The Legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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