Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176) and index.
Contents
Frequently cited texts. -- Introduction: Apparitions of paper. -- Distraction in America: paper, money, Poe. -- Off the map: Stevenson's Polynesian fiction. -- Transatlantic connections: "Paper language" in Melville. -- The paper state: collective breakdown in Dickens's Bleak house. -- Pretending to read: Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge. -- Afterword: The novel collective.