Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. The Order of Forms: Mathematic, Aesthetic, and Political Formalisms 1
6. 1. The Realist Blueprint: For a Formalist Theory of Literary Realism 33
7. 2. The Set Theory of Wuthering Heights : Realism, Antagonism, and the Infi nities of Social Space 56
8. 3. The Limits of Bleak House 79
9. 4. Symbolic Logic on the Social Plane of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 104
10. 5. Obscure Forms: The Social Geometry of Jude the Obscure 122
11. 6. States of Psychoanalysis: Formalization and the Space of the Political 139
12. Conclusion. Sustaining Forms 156
13. Notes 167
14. Bibliography 195
15. Index 207