Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materialist Literature -- 1. Intangible Materialism -- 2. The Faces of Consilience: Levels of Understanding and the Negative Science of Semiotics -- 3. Material Voices: Tourette Syndrome, Neurobiology, and the Affect of Poetry -- 4. The History of the Hand: Peirce's Index, Attention, and the Power of Narrative -- 5. Pain, Memory, and Religious Suffering: Materiality and the Subject of Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.