Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
1 The Secret Life of Literature 1
2 Mindreading and Social Status 59
3 "Deep" History: Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Foundations of Complex Embedment 99
4 Cultural History: Ideologies of Mind 113
5 Literary History: The Importance of Being Deceived 141
6 Embedded Mental States in Children's Literature 193
Conclusion: On the Future of the "Secret Life" of Literature 219
Notes 223
Bibliography 273
Index 305

About the Author

Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of Why We Read Fiction, Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible, Getting Inside Our Head.