Chapter 1 Introduction: Risking Feeling: Alice Munro’s Fiction of “Exquisite Shame”

Chapter 3 The Shame of Affect: Sensation and Susceptibility in Alice Munro’s Fiction

Chapter 4 Embodied Shame and the Resilient Ethics of Representation in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”

Chapter 5 Alice Munro’s Dramatic Fictions: Challenging (Dis)Ability by Playing with Oedipus the King and Embracing the Queer Art of Failure

Chapter 6 “Chunks of Language Caught in Her Throat”: The Problem of Other(ed) Minds in Alice Munro’s Stories of Cognitive Disability

Chapter 7 Alice Munro and the Shame of Murder

Chapter 8 Child’s Play: Ethical Uncertainty and Narrative Play in the Work of Alice Munro

Chapter 9 Gravel and Grief: Alice Munro’s Vulnerable Landscapes

Chapter 10 “A Sort of Refusal”: Alice Munro’s Reluctant Career

Chapter 11 Life After Life: Survival in the (Late) Fiction of Alice Munro