CONTENTS

  1. Foreword
  2. Sharon Marcus, series editor
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. John Plotz
  6. Part I: Childhood, Through a Glass Darkly
  7.   1    A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter)
  8. Rebecca Zorach
  9.   2    The Young Visiters (Daisy Ashford)
  10. Caleb Crain
  11.   3    The Diary of “Helena Morley” (Elizabeth Bishop, trans.)
  12. Elizabeth Ferry
  13.   4    Brown Girl, Brownstones (Paule Marshall: In Memoriam)
  14. Adrienne Brown
  15.   5    An American Childhood (Annie Dillard)
  16. Salvatore Scibona
  17.   6    The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt)
  18. Toril Moi
  19. Part II: Other Worlds
  20.   7    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  21. Seeta Chaganti
  22.   8    The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson)
  23. Namwali Serpell
  24.   9    Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
  25. Ivan Kreilkamp
  26. 10    Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
  27. Kathryn Lofton
  28. 11    Other Leopards (Denis Williams)
  29. Emily Hyde
  30. 12    Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
  31. Kate Marshall
  32. 13    Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban)
  33. Paul Saint-Amour
  34. Part III: Comedy
  35. 14    The Beggar’s Opera (John Gay)
  36. Yoon Sun Lee
  37. 15    Lady Into Fox (David Garnett)
  38. Maud Ellmann
  39. 16    Prater Violet (Christopher Isherwood)
  40. Stephen McCauley
  41. 17    “Rogue’s Gallery” (Mary McCarthy)
  42. Sean McCann
  43. 18    Gringos (Charles Portis)
  44. Carlo Rotella
  45. Part IV: Battle and Strife
  46. 19    The Road to Calvary (Alexei Tolstoy)
  47. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
  48. 20    The Forbidden Zone (Mary Borden)
  49. Steven Biel and Lauren Kaminsky
  50. 21    Nikola the Outlaw (Ivan Olbracht)
  51. Jonathan Bolton
  52. 22    The House of Hunger (Dambudzo Marechera)
  53. Isabel Hofmeyr
  54. 23    The Short-Timers (Gustav Hasford)
  55. Steven Biel
  56. 24    A Flag for Sunrise (Robert Stone)
  57. Ben Fountain
  58. 25    The Vehement Passions (Philip Fisher)
  59. Lorraine Daston
  60. Part V: Home Fires
  61. 26    Annals of the Parish (John Galt)
  62. Ursula K. Le Guin
  63. 27    The Dry Heart (Natalia Ginzburg)
  64. Merve Emre
  65. 28    Life Among the Savages; Raising Demons (Shirley Jackson)
  66. Sharon Marcus
  67. 29    My Uncle Napoleon (Iraj Pezeshkzad)
  68. Pardis Dabashi
  69. 30    We Think the World of You (J. R. Ackerley)
  70. Kevin Brazil
  71. 31    All Aunt Hagar’s Children (Edward P. Jones)
  72. Elizabeth Graver
  73. Part VI: Mysteries and Trials
  74. 32    The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford
  75. Ramie Targoff
  76. 33    The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
  77. Margaret Cohen
  78. 34    Stamboul Train (Graham Greene)
  79. Penny Fielding
  80. 35    The Hours Before Dawn (Celia Fremlin)
  81. Leah Price
  82. Part VII: Journeys of the Spirit
  83. 36    A Life of One’s Own (Marion Milner)
  84. Vanessa Smith
  85. 37    Butcher’s Crossing (John Williams)
  86. John Plotz
  87. 38    Journey in Search of the Way (Satomi Myōdō)
  88. Theo Davis
  89. 39    I Remember (Joe Brainard)
  90. Andrew H. Miller
  91. 40    Transformatrix (Patience Agbabi)
  92. Stephanie Burt
  93. Contributors