The Materiality of the Essayistic Novel: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) and Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth (2015)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface 1
4. Print Media
5. The Narrative Dynamics of the Table of Contents 9
6. The Material Conditions and Impacts of the Narrative Dynamics in Collaborative Narrative Literature 31
7. Bacteria and Blood: Agency and Materiality in Lyric and Narrative Rhetorical Dynamics 55
8. The Materiality of the Essayistic Novel: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) and Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth (2015) 73
9. Ergodic Seriality in Finnish Contemporary Experimental Fiction 95
10. Digital Media
11. The Co-Constructive Dynamics of Posthumous Digital Paratexts: An Analysis of the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Instagram Narrative 117
12. Assumptional Dynamics: Materiality and Fictionality in Digital Narrative Rhetoric 137
13. The Invisible Contributors: Narrative Film Production, Studio Epitexts, and Test Audiences 159
14. The Materiality of Alternate History Narratives on Reddit and their Conceptualization of History 177
15. Author Information 199
16. Index of Authors and Selected Works 201