Matthew Stratton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Politics of Irony in American Modernism (2014).

Introduction, PART I Connecting Literature and Politics, 1.Aesthetics and Affect, 2. Forms, 3. Realism and Representation, 4. Symptoms, 5. Reforms and Revolutions, 6. Rights Catalogue, 7. Empires, Decolonization, and the Canon, PART II Constituting the Polis, 8.Citizenship and Enslavement, 9. Humans and Posthumans, 10. Animals, 11. Workers, 12. Debtors, 13. Refugees, 14. Nations and States, PART III Periods and Histories, 15. On or about 1066, 16. On or about 1400, 17. On or about 1616, 18. On or about 1789, 19. On or about 1885, 20. On or about 1914, 21. On or about 1945, 22. On or about 1989, 23. On or about Now, PART IV Media, Genre, Techne, [...] and Print, 25. Photography, Literature, and Time 26. Art, Propaganda, and Truth, 27. Criticism, 28. Digital Platforms, 29. Translation, 30. Comics, PART V Spaces, 31.Archives, 32. Homes, 33. Cities, 34. Streets and Highways, 35. Nature, 36. Oceans, 37. Borders, 38, Planets, 39. Utopia, 40. Classrooms, Index