Foreword (2026) by Wendy Anne Lee

Introduction: Aesthetics, Writing, Value
Chapter 1. The Nuclear Sublime
Chapter 2. Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form
Chapter 3. Emma, or Happiness (or Sex Work)
Chapter 4. Canons, Poetics, and Social Value: Jeremy Bentham and How to Do Things with People
Chapter 5. Rape and the Rise of the Novel
Chapter 6. Pornography, the Theory
Chapter 7. Coherence and Changes in the Unknown World
Chapter 8. Now It’s Personal: D. A. Miller and Too-Close Reading
Chapter 9. Not Kant, but Bentham: On Taste
Chapter 10. Bitcoin: A Reader’s Guide (The Beauty of the Very Idea)
Chapter 11. Exit Talking: Bentham on His Auto-Icon
Chapter 12. A Conversation About Records of Reward: Essays on Literature and Value with Nate Crocker

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index