Introduction: Realism and Its Antinomies
Part One: The Antinomies of Realism
I The Twin Sources of Realism: The Narrative Impulse
II The Twin Sources of Realism: Affect, or, the Body's Present
III Zola, or, the Codification of Affect
IV Tolstoy, or, Distraction
V Pérez Galdós, or, the Waning of Protagonicity
VI George Eliot and Mauvaise Foi
VII Realism and the Dissolution of Genre
VIII The Swollen Third Person, or, Realism after Realism
IX Coda: Kluge, or, Realism after Affect
Part Two: The logic of the Material
I The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism