Criticism as Experiment
Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino

I Towards an Intellectual History

1. Unrestrained Individuation
Stefano Ercolino

2. Discourse on Method
Francesco de Cristoforo

3. The New Anatomy Table
Giuseppe Episcopo

II Experimental Criticism

4. Essayism: Franco Moretti
Guido Mazzoni

5. Morphology in America: Evolutionary Theory as an Experiment in Radical Sociology
Andrea Miconi

6. Towards a More Rational Literary History
Patricia McManus

7. Franco Moretti and the Sociology of Literature: Bridging Distant/Close Reading and Field Theory
Gisèle Sapiro

8. The Moon and the Tides: Franco Moretti as Theorist of Literature
Federico Bertoni

9. Serious Experiments
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

10. Can the Digital Humanities Kill Their Own Theories?
Jérôme David

11. The Roads to Rome: Literary Studies, Hermeneutics, Quantification
Franco Moretti

III On the Novel

12. The Serious and the Tragic: Balzachian and Flaubertian Notes
Francesco Fiorentino

13. The Novel, History, Politics: Franco Moretti and the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
Françoise Lavocat

14. The Novel According to Franco Moretti
Enrica Villari

15. Useless Masterpiece: Notes on Lukács's Theory of the Novel
Franco Moretti

Time Passes
Franco Moretti

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