Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Intellectual Critics and the Pleasures of Complexity 31
5. 2. Appetite for Deconstruction 64
6. 3. New Historicism and the Aesthetics of the Archive 105
7. 4. Lolita and the Stakes of Form 140
8. 5. Why Is Beloved So Universally Beloved? 167
9. Conclusion. Reading the Surface in the Distance 194
10. Notes 219
11. Works Cited 243
12. Acknowledgments 265
13. Index 267