Chapter 1 “An Impudent and Ingenious Fiction”: Introduction; Chapter 2 “We Do Not See Any Good End in Such Descriptions”: Moral Censure and the First Hundred Years; Chapter 3 “A Language from the Depths”: Psychological Models; Chapter 4 “I Once Wrote a Very Silly Book”: The Problem of Form; Chapter 5 “A Correspondent Coloring”: The Historical Orientation; Chapter 6 “All the Outward Signs of Intelligibility”: Poe and Pym in the Dialogue of Modernism; aft Afterword;