Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Section One: Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard
6. Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard 19
7. Section Two: The 'Precious Oxygen of Permission': Shields's Experiments with Narrative Form
8. Filling the Creative Void: Narrative Dilemmas in Small Ceremonies, the Happenstance Novels, and Swann 39
9. The Republic of Love and Popular Romance 61
10. The Stone Diaries, Jane Eyre, and the Burden of Romance 84
11. Autobiography As Critical Practice in The Stone Diaries 113
12. The Subjunctive Mode of One's Self': Carol Shields's Biography of Jane Austen 147
13. Section Three: To 'Shorten the Distance between What Is Privately Felt and Universally Known': Reaching beyond the Word
14. Fat, Nail Clippings, Body Parts, or the Story of Where I Have Been: Carol Shields and Auto/Biography 175
15. 'She Enlarges on the Available Materials': A Postmodernism of Resistance in The Stone Diaries 201
16. Treading the Maze of Larry's Party 230
17. The Swann Who Laid the Golden Egg: A Cautionary Tale of Deconstructionist Cannibalism in Swann 255
18. Section Four: Annotated Bibliography
19. Carol Shields: An Annotated Bibliography 285
20. Contributors 311
21. Index 315