The novel and the will
Before and after the novel: abyssal modernity and the interior life of the will
Vitalizing the bildungsroman
General willfulness: Moby-Dick and romantic sovereignty
The James Brothers at century's end: mysticism, abstraction, and the forms of social life
"Begin all over again": naturalism, habit, and the embodiment of the will
Narrative and its discontents: racial justice, existential action, and the problem of the past.