Volume 12, Number 1 (2017)
ContentsSpecial Issue: Data Fiction: Naturalism, Narrative, and Numbers Guest Editors: James Dorson and Regina Schober
Essays Introduction
James Dorson and Regina Schober
The Vital and the Statistical
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Hypereconomics: Frank Norris, Thomas Piketty, and Neoclassical Economic Romance
Jason Puskar
Rates, Romance, and Regulated Monopoly in Frank Norris’s
The Octopus James Dorson
“A Problem in Small Boat Navigation”: Ocean Metaphors and Emerging Data Epistemology in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and Jack London’s “The Heathen”
Regina Schober
Counting Success and Measuring Value: Money, Numbers, and Abstraction in Theodore Dreiser’s
Sister Carrie Ulfried Reichardt
Domestic Data and Feminist Momentum: The Narrative Accounting of Helen Stuart Campbell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Katherine A. Fama
The Wire, Big Data, and the Specter of Naturalism
Laura Bieger