Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms; Chapter 1. Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Part II: Forgetting and Remembrance; Chapter 2. William Carleton’s and Charles Kickham’s Ethnographic Realism; Chapter 3. George Eliot’s Anachronistic Literacies; Part III: Untimely Development; Chapter 4. Charles Dickens’s Reactionary Reform; Chapter 5. George Moore’s Untimely Bildung; Coda: Inhabiting Institutions; Bibliography; Index.