'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian Studies
1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.