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| Prologue: The Iliad's Two Wars | |
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| The Proem | |
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| When Achilles Disappears: A Reading of Book 2 | |
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| The Death of Lykaon | |
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| Introduction: Characterization and Distribution | |
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| Character-Space: Between Person and Form | |
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| Characterization and the Antinomies of Theory | |
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| "They Too Should Have a Case" | |
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| Two Kinds of Minorness | |
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| Function and Alienation: The Labor Theory of Character | |
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| Realism, Democracy, and Inequality | |
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| Austen, Dickens, Balzac: Character-Space in the Nineteenth-Century Novel | |
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| The Minor Character: Between Story and Discourse | |
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| Narrative Asymmetry in Pride and Prejudice | |
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| Minor Characters in a Narrative Structure | |
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| The Double Meaning of Character | |
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| The One vs. the Many | |
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| Asymmetry: From Discourse to Story | |
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| Characterizing Minorness 1: Compression | |
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| The Space of the Protagonist 1: Elizabeth's Consciousness | |
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| Characterizing Minorness 2: Externality | |
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| Helpers: Charlotte Lucas and the Actantial Theory | |
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| The Space of the Protagonist 2: Elizabeth's Self-Consciousness | |
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| Wickham: "How He Lived I Know Not" | |
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| Minor Minor Characters: Representing Multiplicity | |
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| Making More of Minor Characters | |
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| Distorted Characters and the Weak Protagonist | |
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| Between Jingle and Joe: Asymmetry and Misalignment in The Pickwick Papers | |
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| Seeing into Sight: Mr. Elton and Uriah Heep | |
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| Partial Visibility and Incomplete Vision: The Appearance of Minor Characters | |
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| Repetition and Eccentricity: Minor Characters and the Division of Labor | |
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| "Monotonous Emphasis": Minorness and Three Kinds of Repetition | |
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| Partings Welded Together: The Character-System in Great Expectations | |
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| Between Two Roaring Worlds: Exteriority and Characterization | |
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| The Structure of Childhood Experience | |
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| Interpreting the Character-System: Signification, Position, Structure | |
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| Metaphor, Metonymy, and Characterization | |
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| Getting to London | |
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| Three Narrative Workers and the Dispersion of Labor in Great Expectations | |
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| Wemmick as Helper (the Functional Minor Character) | |
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| Magwitch's Return (the Marginal Minor Character) | |
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| Orlick and Social Multiplicity (the Fragmented Minor Character) | |
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| The Double: A Narrative Condition? | |
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| A qui la place?: Characterization and Competition in Le Pegrave;re Goriot and La Comeacute;die humaine | |
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| Typification and Multiplicity | |
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| The Problem: Who Is the Hero? | |
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| Character, Type, Crowd | |
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| Balzac's Double Vision | |
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| The Character-System in Le Pegrave;re Goriot | |
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| La belle loi de soi pour soi | |
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| Goriot: The Interior as Exterior | |
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| Rastignac: The Exterior as Interior | |
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| Between the Exterior and the Interior | |
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| Interiority and Centrality in Le Pegrave;re Goriot and King Lear | |
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| The Shrapnel of Le Pegrave;re Goriot | |
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| Recurring Characters, Le Pegrave;re Goriot, and the Origins of La Comeacute;die humaine | |
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| The Social Representation of Death: Le Pegrave;re Goriot and Le Cousin Pons | |
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| Cogs in the Machine: Les Poiret between Le Pegrave;re Goriot and Les Employeeacute;s | |
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| Competition and Character in Les Employeeacute;s | |
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| Afterword: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and the Prehistory of the Protagonist | |
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| Notes | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |