Form and Medium

Contributors to this special issue explore the idea that novels are both material and conceptual, with doubled associations of material form and the forms of narrative/narration, where narrative form and physical medium influence and construct each other. The authors are interested in how the concept of form itself becomes a contested set of possibilities, both material and textual. Novels can be variously assembled and disassembled, the authors argue, and their forms cohere and disperse, alive to the transformations in material—and now digital—culture.

Contributors: James Draney, Penny Fielding, Phillip Brian Harper, Yoon Sun Lee, Caroline Levine, Deidre Lynch, Kent Puckett, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, David Sergeant, Garrett Stewart, Andrew Taylor