CHAPTER II

THE REALISTIC

Character of Victorian realism. Nature of realistic satire. Subdivisions, based on authors’ methods and devices. The direct or didactic satirists: Lytton, Thackeray, Dickens, Meredith. Satire in plot or situation: _Martin Chuzzlewit_, _Vanity Fair_, _The Egoist_. Minor episodes. Satire expressed by witty characters, of various types 84