Foreword by Melanie Yergeau -- Preface: Involuntarity and intentionality -- Chapter one: Introduction -- Chapter two: Articulating autism poetics -- Chapter three: On the surprising elasticity of taxonomical rhetoric -- Chapter four: Nothingness himself -- Chapter four-and-a-half: (Why "Bartleby" doesn't live here) -- Chapter five: Neuroqueer narration in Charlotte BronteĢs Villette -- Chapter six: The absence of the object: autistic voice and literary architecture in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Chapter seven: Autism and narrative invention in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Unconclusion: Because the butterfly: autistic infinitudes -- An accounting: autistic infinitudes -- Notes -- Works cited -- Acknowledgments: a litany -- Index.
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