Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Introduction 9
4. Chapter One Monumentality and the Novel: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 25
5. Chapter Two A Sublime of Data: Information Overload between the Covers 47
6. Chapter Three Narratives of the Database: Between Counting and Recounting 69
7. Chapter Four Quantified Selves: Monumental Autobiography in the Facebook Age 91
8. Chapter Five Growing Women, Shrinking Men? Gender, Scale, Materiality 115
9. Chapter Six Can the Novel Trump the TV Series? Competing Media in the Post-television Stage 137
10. Chapter Seven The Book-as-World-as-Book: Analog Novels and Geographical Information Systems 165
11. Chapter Eight Slow Reading, Materiality, and Mediacy: How Books Withstand Real-Time and Binging 187
12. Conclusion 215
13. Acknowledgements 221
14. Notes 223
15. Bibliography 231
16. Index 247