(print) vi, 286 p. ; 23 cm

Introduction: understanding narrative. p.1 -- 1. Strolling, touring, cruising: counter-disciplinary narrative and the loiterature of travel. p.17 -- 2. Generic and doctrinal politics in the proletarian bildungsroman. p.43 -- 3. Narratives of bourgeois subjectivity in Mozart's Prague Symphony. p.65 -- 4. The ethics of forms: taking flight with The wings of the dove. p.99 -- 5. Picturing spectatorship. p.136 -- 6. "How did you know he licked his lips?": second person knowledge and first person power in The Maltese falcon. p.157 -- 7. Naturalizing Molloy. p.178 -- 8. Travel narrative and imperialist vision. p.199 -- 9. Present tense narration, mimesis, the narrative norm, and the positioning of the reader in Waiting for the barbarians. p.222 -- 10. Dialogue, discourse, theft, and mimicry: Charlotte Bronte rereads William Makepeace Thackeray. p.246 -- Contributors. p.273 -- Index. p.277