The architectural approach. The etymology of "approach" (n. s.) ; The concept of approach (n. s. and v.): the "ancient" and the "modern" lines ; The language of approach (v.): architectural and syntactical design ; The traveler's approach ; The novelist's approach
The prepositional building. The park gate lodge ; The topographical view: angles and staffage ; A bridge to the next part: "a village on, or across, the Thames" ; The topographical page
The typographical landscape. The letters on the page ; Fonts ; Capitals and italics ; Catchwords ; Pointing
The grammar in between. The rise of grammar ; The rise of the preposition ; Clarissa and the little words: the avenue and the approach ; Richardson as printer ; Clarissa and prepositions ; Clarissa as preposition
The narrative picturesque. Syntactical architecture in textual landscapes ; Bunyan: thinges... included in one word
Defoe: "in a word" ; Haywood: "in fine, she was undone" ; The narrative picturesque ; Radcliffe and the prepositional phrase ; Burney and the psychological interior ; Austen and the approach to the interior ; Coda a topographical page.