1. Gaelan Gilbert, Guest editor
Introduction to the Special Issue

2. Ben Kautzer
Outflanking the Bureaucratic Production of Urgency: Ivan Illich and Stanley Hauerwas on Crisis and the Cultivation of Patience

3. Pam Fox Kuhlken
Death by Ethanol: Confessions of a Sugar Addict

4. Emily Hicks
All Our Relations: The Border, a Material Site of Pure War

5. Mark Young
The Ambiguity of Fantasy: A Cultural Reading of P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins

6. Gaelan Gilbert
A Redemptive Economy: Corpus Christi Pageant Cycles as Liturgical Relativization of Secular Time

7. Joseph Volk
“It is never right to play Ragtime fast…”: Recovering Counter-Narratives to Prevailing Understandings of Ecstatic Progress in the Critical Discussion Surrounding E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime

8. Anna Rogers
The Industrial Town: Representations of a Changing Way of Life in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Charles Dickens’s Hard Times

9. Rose Burt
Diversions and Deceit: Eliot, Nabakov, and the Art of Misdirection in a Speed-Reading Society

10. Kenneth Miyazaki
The Jesuit and the Alien Brothel; Or, The Poetics of Problematic Historiographies in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow

11. Charles Hohensee
A Beginning Conception of Speed When Acceleration is Constant

13. Matthew H. Diaz
No Where Travelers