1 Fictions of Time

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Rancière and Literature 1
6. I Coordinates
7. 1 Fictions of Time 25
8. 2 Jacques Rancière in the Forest of Signs: Indiscipline, Figurality and Translation 42
9. 3 Rancière and Tragedy 58
10. 4 Rancière Lost: On John Milton and Aesthetics 76
11. 5 ‘A New Mode of the Existence of Truth’: Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780–1830 99
12. II Realisms
13. 6 The Novelist and Her Poor: Nineteenth-Century Character Dynamics 125
14. 7 ‘Broiled in Hell-fire’: Melville, Rancière and the Heresy of Literarity 143
15. 8 Why Maggie Tulliver Had To Be Killed 164
16. 9 The Meaning in the Detail: Literature and the Detritus of the Nineteenth Century in Jacques Rancière and Walter Benjamin 183
17. III Contemporaneities
18. 10 Ineluctable Modality of the Sensible: Poverty and Form in Ulysses 207
19. 11 The Politics of Realism in Rancière and Houellebecq 226
20. 12 Literature, Politics and Action 249
21. Index 269