CONTENTS Introduction Chapter one Monumental Novels from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century Chapter two A Sublime of Data: Information Overload between the Covers Chapter three Narratives of the Database: Between Counting and Recounting Chapter four Quantified Selves: Monumental Autobiography in the Facebook Age Chapter five Growing Women, Shrinking Men: Gender, Scale, Materiality Chapter six Can the Novel Trump the TV Series? Competing Media in the Post-television Stage Chapter seven The Book-as-World-as-Book: Analog Novels and Geographical Information Systems Chapter eight Slow Reading, Materiality, and Mediacy: How Books Withstand Real-time and Binging Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index