Karen Newman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University and is the author of FetalPositions: Individualism, Science and Visuality. JayClayton is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and is the author of The Pleasures of Babel. MarianneHirsch is Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory.

"Notable for its critical acumen, impressive range, yet coherent focus, Time and the Literary is a fertile contribution to recent cultural and literary debate." -- Nicole Simek, Princeton University, Symploke

• Introduction Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsh Part I 1. Undoing Catherine Gallagher 2. Genome Time Jay Clayton 3. The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information, Alan Liu 4. Econstructing Sisterhood Jane Gallop Part II 5. Re-reading Literary History and Modernity: Paul de Man's Ambivalence Jonathan Arac 6. Literary History and Literary Modernity Paul de Man 7. Doing Time: Re-reading Paul de Man's Literary History and Literary Modernity Barbara Johnson Part III 8. Re-reading the Apocalypse: Millennial Politics in 19th and 11th Century France Stephen G. Nichols 9. Group Time: Catastrophe, Survival and Periodicity Louise Fradenburg 10. Historifying Marginal Practices Samuel R. Delaney

Karen Newman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University and is the author of FetalPositions: Individualism, Science and Visuality. JayClayton is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and is the author of The Pleasures of Babel. MarianneHirsch is Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory.

"Notable for its critical acumen, impressive range, yet coherent focus, Time and the Literary is a fertile contribution to recent cultural and literary debate." -- Nicole Simek, Princeton University, Symploke

• Introduction Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsh Part I 1. Undoing Catherine Gallagher 2. Genome Time Jay Clayton 3. The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information, Alan Liu 4. Econstructing Sisterhood Jane Gallop Part II 5. Re-reading Literary History and Modernity: Paul de Man's Ambivalence Jonathan Arac 6. Literary History and Literary Modernity Paul de Man 7. Doing Time: Re-reading Paul de Man's Literary History and Literary Modernity Barbara Johnson Part III 8. Re-reading the Apocalypse: Millennial Politics in 19th and 11th Century France Stephen G. Nichols 9. Group Time: Catastrophe, Survival and Periodicity Louise Fradenburg 10. Historifying Marginal Practices Samuel R. Delaney