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Acknowledgments Introduction Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega Part I Vulnerability and Self-Quest 1 Learning to Love: The Paradoxical Life Quests of the Male Protagonists in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time Susana Onega 2 The Eclipse of Heroism and the Outing of Plural Masculinities in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child Georges Letissier 3 Espousing the Wound: Dispossession as Practice in Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin Jean-Michel Ganteau Part II Vulnerability and Self-Definition 4 "Am I Still Alice?": The Quest for "a Sense of Self" and Alzheimer’s Disease in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice Chiara Battisti 5 Anita Brookner’s Wounded Heroine Eileen Williams-Wanquet 6 Wounded Characters and Vulnerable Lives and Places in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Rosario Arias Part III Masochism and Loss of Affect 7 Willed Wounds: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Masochism in A. L. Kennedy’s Fiction Maria Grazia Nicolosi 8 The Masochistic Self Quest of the Harassed Hero in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life Merve Sarıkaya-Şen 9 Reading through the Body: The Damaged Mind in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder Renate Brosch Part IV Vulnerability and Biopolitics 10 "Caring, Dwelling, Being: The Phenomenology of Vulnerability in Kazuo Ishiguro’s　Never Let Me Go" Laura Colombino 11 Wounded Subjects and Vulnerable Nature in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland Angelo Monaco 12 Barely Alive: Rewriting Sacrificial Passion in Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K Pascale Tollance Notes on Contributors Index