Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Rancière and Literature; Julian Murphet and Grace Hellyer; Section I: Coordinates; 1. Fictions of Time, Jacques Rancière; 2. Jacques Rancière in the Forest of Signs: Indiscipline, Figurality and Translation, Eric Méchoulan; 3. Rancière and Tragedy, Oliver Feltham; 4. Rancière Lost: On John Milton and Aesthetics, Justin Clemens; 5. ‘A New Mode of the Existence of Truth’: Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780–1830, Andrew Gibson; Section II: Realisms; 6. The Novelist and Her Poor: Nineteenth-Century Character Dynamics, Elaine Freedgood; 7. ‘Broiled in Hell-fire’: Melville, Rancière and the Heresy of Literarity, Grace Hellyer; 8. Why Maggie Tulliver Had To Be Killed, Emily Steinlight; 9. The Meaning in the Detail: Literature and the Detritus of the Nineteenth Century in Jacques Rancière and Walter Benjamin, Alison Ross; Section III: Contemporaneities; 10. Ineluctable Modality of the Sensible: Poverty and Form in Ulysses, Julian Murphet; 11. The Politics of Realism in Rancière and Houellebecq, Arne De Boever; 12. Literature, Politics and Action, Bert Olivier; Index.