Danuta Fjellestad is Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is primarily interested in the experimental American novel of the 20th and 21st centuries.David Watson is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He works on contemporary and nineteenth-century American fiction.

• Introduction: The Futures of American Literature 1. Minds, Messages, and the Moral Imagination in the Media of Fiction: Inanimate Alice between Cognitive and Rhetorical Paradigms 2. "Take that you intellectuals!" and "kaPOW!": Adam Thirlwell and the Metamodernist Future of Style 3. The Paradoxes of "Unnatural" Mimesis in Gordon Sheppard’s HA! 4. Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism 5. Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, the Anthropocene, and the Scales of Literature 6. The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel 7. A Sociological Imagination 8. The Role of Place in the Post-Apocalypse: Contrasting The Road and World War Z 9. Walking as a Metaphor for Narrativity

Danuta Fjellestad is Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is primarily interested in the experimental American novel of the 20th and 21st centuries.David Watson is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He works on contemporary and nineteenth-century American fiction.

• Introduction: The Futures of American Literature 1. Minds, Messages, and the Moral Imagination in the Media of Fiction: Inanimate Alice between Cognitive and Rhetorical Paradigms 2. "Take that you intellectuals!" and "kaPOW!": Adam Thirlwell and the Metamodernist Future of Style 3. The Paradoxes of "Unnatural" Mimesis in Gordon Sheppard’s HA! 4. Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism 5. Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, the Anthropocene, and the Scales of Literature 6. The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel 7. A Sociological Imagination 8. The Role of Place in the Post-Apocalypse: Contrasting The Road and World War Z 9. Walking as a Metaphor for Narrativity

Danuta Fjellestad is Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is primarily interested in the experimental American novel of the 20th and 21st centuries.David Watson is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He works on contemporary and nineteenth-century American fiction.

• Introduction: The Futures of American Literature 1. Minds, Messages, and the Moral Imagination in the Media of Fiction: Inanimate Alice between Cognitive and Rhetorical Paradigms 2. "Take that you intellectuals!" and "kaPOW!": Adam Thirlwell and the Metamodernist Future of Style 3. The Paradoxes of "Unnatural" Mimesis in Gordon Sheppard’s HA! 4. Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism 5. Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, the Anthropocene, and the Scales of Literature 6. The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel 7. A Sociological Imagination 8. The Role of Place in the Post-Apocalypse: Contrasting The Road and World War Z 9. Walking as a Metaphor for Narrativity