Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: In Defence of Paraphrase; 1. Content and Form; 2. Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Ethical Confusion; 3. Justifying Anachronism; 4. The Scourge of the Unwilling: George Eliot on the Sources of Normativity; 5. Everyday Aesthetics and the Experience of the Profound; 6. Robert Browning, Augusta Webster, and the Role of Morality; Epilogue: Between Immersion and Critique: Thoughtful Reading; Index.