Introduction: The feeling of reading / Rachel Ablow -- On not close reading: The prolonged excerpt as Victorian critical protocol / Nicholas Dames -- Traveling readers / Kate Flint -- Reader's block: Trollope and the book as prop / Leah Price -- Mediated involvement: John Stuart Mill's antisocial sociability / John Plotz -- Reciting Alice: What is the use of a book without poems? / Catherine Robson -- Over worked, worked over: A poetics of fatigue / Herbert F. Tucker -- The impersonal intimacy of Marius the epicurean / Stephen Arata -- Reading and re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the fiction of belief / Rachel Ablow -- Reading feeling and the "transferred life": The mill on the floss / Garrett Stewart.
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