Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? (Hardcover)

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Fictional among Us
2. The Cognitive Dimension
3. What Hails Us?
4. The Literary Endowment: Five Mind-Reading Turns
Four Openings
Free Indirect Discourse
Machiavellian Narratives
Attention
The Drama of Differential Access to Social Information
5. The Fantasy of Exposure and Narrative Development in Eighteenth-Century Britain
6. God Novels
7. Gossip and Literary Narratives
8. What's the Matter with Miss Bates?
9. Mind Blindness
10. Postmodernism Reflects: J. M. Coetzee and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index