Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgments 11
4. Introduction 15
5. 1 . Clarissa by Halves 32
6. 2. Discovering Reading 38
7. 3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World 47
8. 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary" 57
9. 5. Denatured Signs 81
10. 6. The Voyage Out 108
11. 7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin 136
12. 8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader 148
13. 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives 181
14. Bibliographic Postscript 189
15. Index 197