CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Three Axes of Genre Study
Chapter One
Active Readers and Flexible Forms: The Emergence of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1966–1971
Chapter Two
The Real and Imaginary Politics of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1983–2014
Chapter Three
“An Insatiable Market” for Minor Characters: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Chapter Four
The Logic of Characters’ Virtual Lives
Coda
Genre as Telescopic Method
APPENDIX: MINOR-CHARACTER ELABORATIONS SINCE 1966
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX