Robert L. Caserio is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. Clement C. Hawes is Professor of English and History at the University of Michigan.

• Introduction Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes; 1. The novel before 'the novel' John Richetti; 2. Biographical form in the novel Alan Downie; 3. Legal discourse and novelistic form Eleanor Shevlin; 4. Novelistic history Clement Hawes; 5. Interiorities Elaine McGirr; 6. Samuel Richardson Carol Flynn; 7. Domesticity and novel narratives Cynthia Wall; 8. Obscenity and the erotics of fiction Tom Keymer; 9. Cognitive alternatives to interiority Lisa Zunshine; 10. The novel, the British nation, and Britain's four kingdoms Janet Sorensen; 11. Money's productivity in narrative fiction Liz Bellamy; 12. 'The southern unknown countries': imagining the Pacific in the eighteenth-century novel Robert Markley; 13. Editorial fictions: paratexts, fragments, and the novel Barbara Benedict; 14. Extraordinary narrators: it-narratives and metafiction Mark Blackwell; 15. Romance redivivus Scott Black; 16. Gothic success and Gothic failure: formal innovation in a much-maligned genre George Haggerty; 17. Sir Walter Scott: historiography contested by fiction Murray Pittock; 18. How and where we live now: Edgeworth, Austen, Dickens, and Trollope Barry Weller; 19. From Wollstonecraft to Gissing and Hardy: the revolutionary emergence of women, children, and labor in novelistic narrative Carolyn Lesjak; 20. Space and places (I): the four nations Deborah Epstein Nord; 21. Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell: politics and its limits Amanda Anderson; 22. Populations: pictures of prose in Hardy, Austen, Eliot, and Thackeray Aaron Fogel; 23. The novel amid new sciences Phillip Mallett; 24. George Eliot's past and present: emblematic histories Barry V. Qualls; 25. The Bildungsroman Brigid Lowe; 26. The novel and social cognition: internalist and externalist perspective Alan Palmer; 27. Clamors of Eros Richard A. Kaye; 28. The novel as immoral, antisocial force Christopher Lane; 29. Sensations: Gothic, horror, crime fiction, detective fiction Peter K. Garrett; 30. Realism and romance Francis O'Gorman; 31. Representations of spaces and places (II): around the globe David James; 32. Imperial romance Robert L. Caserio; 33. The art novel: impressionists and aesthetes Jesse Matz; 34. The impact of lyric, drama, and verse narrative on novel form Stefanie Markovits; 35. Henry James and Joseph Conrad: the pursuit of autonomy Robert Hampson; 36. Joyce: the modernist novel's revolution in matter and manner Derek Attridge; 37. Richardson, Woolf, Lawrence: the modernist novel's experiments with narrative (I) Mark Wollaeger; 38. Wells, Forster, Firbank, Lewis, Huxley, Compton-Burnett, Green: the modernist novel's experiments with narrative (II) Jonathan Greenberg; 39. Beyond autonomy: political dimensions of modernist novels Morag Shiach; 40. Fiction by women: continuities and changes, 1930–1990 Elizabeth Maslen; 41. The novel amidst other discourses Patricia Waugh; 42. The novel and thirty years of war Marina MacKay; 43. Thrillers Allan Hepburn; 44. Novelistic complications of spaces and places: the four nations and regionalism Dominic Head; 45. The series novel: a dominant form Suzanne Keen; 46. The novel's West Indian revolution Peter Kalliney; 47. Post-war renewals of experiment, 1945–1979 Philip Tew; 48. The novel amidst new technology and media Julian Murphet; 49. Novels of same-sex desire Gregory Woods; 50. From Wells to John Berger: the social democratic era of the novel Charles Ferrall; 51. The postcolonial novel: history and memory C. L. Innes; 52. History and heritage: the English novel's persistent historiographical turn Peter Childs; 53. Twentieth-century satire: the poetics and politics of negativity James F. English; 54. Unending romance: science fiction and fantasy in the twentieth century Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Bibliography; Index.

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