Series Editors’ Preface List of Contributors Chronology of David Mitchell's life David Mitchell: An introduction: Courtney Hopf and Wendy Knepper 1 Globalization in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten: Minding ‘the Reality Gap’ Hugh Charles O’Connell - University of Massachusetts Boston, USA 2 Questing for the Post-postmodern: David Mitchell's number9dream Nick Bentley - Keele University, UK 3 ‘What was knowledge for, I would ask myself’: Science, Technology and Pharmakon in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas Martin Paul Eve, University of London, UK 4 Witnessing Transhistorical Trauma in Cloud Atlas Jason Mezey - Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA 5 Raids on the Inarticulate: The Stammering Narrative of Black Swan Green Courtney Hopf, New York University’s London campus, UK 6 History, Globalization and the Human Subject in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet William Stephenson, University of Chester, UK 7 Voicing Tragedy in David Mitchell’s Libretti: Wake and Sunken Garden Rose Harris-Birtill, University of St Andrews, UK 8 David Mitchell’s Representations of Environmental Crisis and Ecological Apocalypse Treasa DeLoughry, University of Exeter, UK 9 The Bone Clocks and the Mud of Humanity: The Anthropocene Bildungsroman Chris Koenig Woodyard, University of Toronto, Cananda 10 David Mitchell as World-Builder: The Bone Clocks and Slade House Wendy Knepper, Brunel University, UK Creating a Fictional Universe: An Interview with David Mitchell Courtney Hopf Further Reading Index

Guides in the Contemporary Critical Perspectives series provide companions to reading and studying major contemporary authors. Each guide includes new critical essays combining textual readings, cultural analysis and discussion of key critical and theoretical issues in a clear, accessible style. They also include a preface by a major contemporary writer, a new interview with the author, discussion of film and TV adaptation and guidance on further reading.