Preface
1. The World of Literature
2. Self-experiences and Novel Making
3. Novel Making and the World of Everyday Life
4. Novels and Everyday Life
5. The Uses of Privacy
6. Readers' Self-experiences
7. Novel Making, Novel Reading, and Literary Interaction
8. Literary Socialization
9. The Business of Literature
10. The Art of Social Worlds and the Science of Social Worlds
11. The Fictive
Appendix: Additional Novels in the Sample
Notes
Bibliography
Proper Name Index
Subject Index