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Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: Neoclassical Poetics and the Rise of the Novel; 1.1 Beating the Bounds of the Rules in Incognita; 1.2 Manners, Passions, Unities; 1.3 Neoclassicism and the Sciences; Chapter 2. The Situational Logic of Vraisemblance; 2.1. Cognitive Moves; 2.2. Suc http://www.radiolab.org/story/dust-planet/ cessful Solutions; 2.3. Vraisemblance Now; I: Poetic Justice; Chapter 3: Samuel Richardson and the Project of Poetic Justice; 3.1. Virtue Rewarded; 3.2. Altruistic Punishers in B-Hall; 3.3 Pamela - Shamela - Anti-Pamela; Chapter 4: The Trials of Clarissa; 4.1 Editing the Social Contract; 4.2 Lovelace’s Happy Endings; 4.3. Poetic Justice at the Limits; Chapter 5: Ann Radcliffe and the Abdication of the Superpunisher; 5.1 Comeuppance Clockworks; 5.2 Enter the Uncanny; 5.3 The Supernatural and Superpunishers; II: The Unities; Chapter 6: The Best Possible Storyworld: Johnson’s Rasselas; 6.1 Rasselas, the Imagination and the Unities; 6.2 Event Cognition, Spatialization and the Conceptual Shape of the Storyworld; 6.3 Closure in Abissinia; Chapter 7: Utopian Reasoning in Mercier’s L’An 2440 and Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; 7.1 Poetics and Politics; 7.2 The Cognitive Estrangements of Utopia; 7.3 The Idea of Progress and Intertemporal Bargaining in Utopian Fiction; 7.4 A Unified Utopia; Chapter 8: The Dramatic Passages of The Castle of Otranto; 8.1. Where the Bodies Are; 8.2 The Return of Racine; 8.3 Embodied Experience in the Novel; III: Decorum; Chapter 9. Henry Fielding’s Probability Design; 9.1 Sagacious Readers; 9.2 Decorum and Surprise; 9.3 A Hero Certainly Born to be Hanged; Chapter 10. The Female Quixote and the Probability of Romance; 10.1. The Querelle de Miss Groves; 10.2 Educating Readers; 10.3 Arabella’s Wager; Chapter 11. John Cleland vs. the Novel; 11.1. Building a Social World in Mrs Mercier’s Academy; 11.2. The Predictable Novel; 11.3. Love, Duty and the End of Curiosity; Conclusion: Explorations in the Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics; Bibliography

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