1. Introduction: Manipulation in Fiction, Sandrine Sorlin (University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France) -- Part I. Manipulating Positions, Representations and Viewpoints -- 2. Metalepsis, Counterfactuality and the Forked Path in The French Lieutenant's Woman, Marina Lambrou (Kingston University, UK) -- 3. Social Deixis in Literature, Andrea Macrae (Oxford Brookes University, UK) -- 4. 'The Novel of the Future': Author's Manipulation in Henry Green's Nothing (1950) and Doting (1952), RocƯo Montoro (University of Granada, Spain) -- 5. Building a World from the Day's Remains: Showing, Telling, Re-presenting, Jeremy Scott (University of Kent, UK) -- Part II. Readers' Responses to Stylistic Manipulation -- 6. Manipulating Inferences: Interpretative Problems and their Effects on Readers, Billy Clark (Northumbria University, UK) -- 7. Readers' Textual Processing and Emotional Responses to a Story Ending: An Experimental Study of a Short Story by J.D. Salinger, Laura Hidalgo Downing (Universidad Autđnoma de Madrid, Spain) -- 8. Manipulating Metaphors: Interactions Between Readers and 'Upon Opening the Chest Freezer', Sara Whiteley (University of Sheffield, UK) -- III. Multimodal and Genre-Specific Manipulation -- 9. Manipulation in Agatha Christie's Detective Stories: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Creating and Solving Crime Puzzles, Catherine Emmott (University of Glasgow, UK) and Marc Alexander (University of Glasgow, UK) -- 10. Untranslatable Clues: Reader Manipulation and the Challenge of Crime Fiction Translation, Christiana Gregoriou (University of Leeds, UK) -- 11. Multimodal Manipulation of the Reader in Abrams and Dorst's S., Nina Nırgaard (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) -- Index