Suzanne Keen is Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University, USA. She writes about narrative empathy and the impact of immersion reading, and her books include Thomas Hardy's Brains, Empathy and the Novel, Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, Victorian Renovations of the Novel, and a volume of poetry.

• Preface: Studying Narrative Form 1. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts 3. Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function 4. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds5. Plot and Causation: Related Events6. Timing: How Long and How Often?7. Order and Disorder8. Levels: Realms of Existence9. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality10. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise11. Genres and Conventions12. Narrative EmotionsAppendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested ReadingsNotesBibliography Index