Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Narrative as Ethics -- 2. Toward a Narrative Ethics -- 3. We Die in a Last Word: Conrad's Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio -- 4. Lessons of (for) the Master: Short Fiction -- 5. Creating the Uncreated Features of His Face: Monstration in Crane, Melville, and Wright -- 6. Telling Others: Secrecy and Recognition in Dickens, Barnes, and Ishiguro -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.