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The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the ""effective protagonist."" To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with

Wilde, Oscar --- Brontë, Emily --- Scott, Walter, Sir --- Eliot, George --- English fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- English literature --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- Brontë, Emily, --- Eliot, George, --- Scott, Walter, --- Wilde, Oscar,