Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Return to the Educated Imagination 3
4. Technology, Science, and the Book
5. Why I Read War and Peace on a Kindle (and Bought the Book When I Was Done) 13
6. Reading in a Digital Age 27
7. Solitary Reading in an Age of Compulsory Sharing 42
8. Literature and the World (Part One)
9. Literature as Virtual Reality 55
10. How Molière and Co. Helped Me Get My Students Hooked on Literature 72
11. Physical and Philosophical Approaches
12. A World without Books? 91
13. Language Speaks Us: Sophie’s Tree and the Paradox of Self 109
14. Poetic Readings
15. The End of Reading 129
16. Cold Heaven, Cold Comfort: Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? 140
17. Fragments from an Entirely Subjective Story of Reading 156
18. A Very Good Chance of Getting Somewhere Else 161
19. Literature and the World (Part Two)
20. Thinking Deeply in Reading and Writing 175
21. Don’t Panic: Reading Literature in the Digital Age 192
22. Why Read against the Grain? Confessions of an Addict 207
23. About the Authors 223
24. Index 229