Sarah Danielle Allison is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

One of the great pleasures of Allison's book is that it not only offers persuasive readings of familiar texts, but suggests new ways of reading them that others will want to try. Rereading novels by Dickens and Eliot afterwards, I could not help but see their syntax with a new awareness and appreciation . . . the reductive reading Allison describes and demonstrates in this book greatly expands our critical understanding.—Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Review of English Studies

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. In Defense of Reading Reductively2. The Shockingly Subtle Criticism of The London Quarterly Review, 1855-18613. Relative Clauses and the Narrative Present Tense in George Eliot4. Generalization and Declamation5. A Moral TechnologyConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Sarah Danielle Allison is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

One of the great pleasures of Allison's book is that it not only offers persuasive readings of familiar texts, but suggests new ways of reading them that others will want to try. Rereading novels by Dickens and Eliot afterwards, I could not help but see their syntax with a new awareness and appreciation . . . the reductive reading Allison describes and demonstrates in this book greatly expands our critical understanding.—Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Review of English Studies

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. In Defense of Reading Reductively2. The Shockingly Subtle Criticism of The London Quarterly Review, 1855-18613. Relative Clauses and the Narrative Present Tense in George Eliot4. Generalization and Declamation5. A Moral TechnologyConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Sarah Danielle Allison is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

One of the great pleasures of Allison's book is that it not only offers persuasive readings of familiar texts, but suggests new ways of reading them that others will want to try. Rereading novels by Dickens and Eliot afterwards, I could not help but see their syntax with a new awareness and appreciation . . . the reductive reading Allison describes and demonstrates in this book greatly expands our critical understanding.—Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Review of English Studies

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. In Defense of Reading Reductively2. The Shockingly Subtle Criticism of The London Quarterly Review, 1855-18613. Relative Clauses and the Narrative Present Tense in George Eliot4. Generalization and Declamation5. A Moral TechnologyConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex