Neoclassical poetics and the rise of the novel
Beating the bounds of the rules in Incognita
"Manners, passions, unities"
Neoclassicism and the sciences
The situational logic of vraisemblance
Poetic justice. Samuel Richardson and the project of poetic justice
Altruistic punishers in B-Hall
Pamela-Shamela-Anti-Pamela
Editing the social contract
Poetic justice at the limits
Ann Radcliffe and the abdication of the superpunisher
The supernatural and superpunishers
The unities. Johnson's Rasselas and the best possible storyworld
Rasselas, the imagination, and the unities
Event cognition, spatialization and the conceptual shape of the storyworld
Utopian reasoning in Mercier's L'an 2440 and Madden's Memoirs of the twentieth century
The cognitive estrangements of Utopia
The idea of progress and intertemporal bargaining in Utopian fiction
The dramatic passages of The Castle of Otranto
Embodied experience in the novel
Decorum. Henry Fielding's probability design
A hero "certainly born to be hanged"
The Female Quixote and the probability of romance
The Querelle de Miss Groves
John Cleland versus the novel
Building a social world in Mrs Mercier's Academy
Love, duty, and the end of curiosity
Conclusion: Explorations in the prehistory of cognitive poetics.
