Introduction: "Errant Stuff"
Chapter 1 “Amiable Fictions; or the Pedagogy of Friendship in Enlightenment Media”
Chapter 2 “Tragedy in Print; or, Epistolary Friendship and Clarissa’s Divided Readership”
Chapter 3 “The Property of True Friends; or, Paradoxes of Narration in Sarah Fielding’s David Simple”
Chapter 4 “Institutions of Friendship; or, Anonymous Authorship and Political Economy in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall”
Chapter 5 “Enduring Oddity; or, the Friendship of Fools in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy”
Chapter 6 “Infernal Fraternity; or, Alienated Readers in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Epilogue: The Novel as a Technology of Friendship.