Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. Thinking in Parts in American Literature 1
4. Chapter 1. Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of the Fragment 29
5. Chapter 2. Wounded Bodies and the Typographies of War 62
6. Chapter 3. Ruinous Designs and the Novel of Seduction 97
7. Chapter 4. Biblical Economy and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fish 130
8. Chapter 5. Authentic Authorship and the Composition of Sick Fragments 163
9. Epilogue. Fragments in the Nineteenth Century 197
10. Notes 207
11. Bibliography 245
12. Index 269
13. Acknowledgments 277