Editor's Introduction: The Way We Read Now--Nancy Armstrong
2. Oscar Wilde's Fictions of Belief--Rachel Ablow
3. The Problem of Realism and African Fiction--Susan Z. Andrade
4. What Kind of History Does a Theory of the Novel Require?--Jonathan Arac
5. States of Emergency, States of Freedom: Woolf, History, and the Novel--Stephen M. Barber
6. Fictions of the Global--Rita Barnard
7. Prolepsis and Parabasis: Jazz and the Novel--Bruce Barnhart
8. Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic Novel--Nancy Bentley
9. The Known World in World Literature: Bakhtin, Glissant, and Edward P. Jones--Carolyn Vellenga Berman
10. Quixotic Realism and the Romance of the Novel--Scott Black
11. How the Novel Became Middle Class: A History of Histories of the Novel--George Boulukos
12. The Potter's Thumb/The Writer's Hand: Manual Production and Victorian Colonial Narratives--Aviva Briefel
13. Expansion, Interruption, Autoethnography: Toward Disorienting Fiction, Part 2--James Buzard
14. If the Shoe Fits ... Trollope and the Girl--Lauren Byler
15. D(NA) Coding the Ethnic: Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex--Patricia E. Chu
16. The Consular Service and US Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne Abroad--Amanda Claybaugh
17. The Right to Mobility in Adventure Fiction--Margaret Cohen
18. Envy and Victorian Fiction--William A. Cohen
19 Sleep Deprived and Ultramodern: How Novels Turned Dream Girls into Insomniacs--Lois Cucullu
20. "Very Abstract and Terribly Concrete": Capitalism and The Theory of the Novel--David Cunningham
21. The Novel and the Moving Now--Mark Currie
22. On the Protocols of Victorian Citation--Nicholas Dames
23. History, the Twentieth Century, and a Contemporary Novel--Marianne DeKoven
24. The Novel and the Machine in the Eighteenth Century--Joseph Drury
25. Fanaticism and Civil Society: Hogg's Justified Sinner
26. The Return of the Referent in Recent North American Fiction: Neoliberalism and Narratives of Extreme Oppression--Jane Elliott
27. "Vaulted Over by the Present": Melancholy and Sovereignty in Mary Shelley's The Last Man --Jonathan Elmer