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Index
Cover
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue, 1918: Old Man in a Dry Month
Part One: The Self as Power: America When Young 1830–1865
1: The Priest Departs, the Divine Literatus Comes: Emerson
2: Things Are in the Saddle and Ride Mankind: Emerson
3: A Lover and His Guilty Land: Thoreau
4: The Ghost Sense: Hawthorne and Poe
5: A More Perfect Union: Whitman to Lincoln
Part Two: Modern Times, 1865–1900
6: “Melville Is Dwelling Somewhere in New York”
7: Wrecked, Solitary, Here: Dickinson’s Room of Her Own
8: Creatures of Circumstance: Mark Twain
9: The James Country
10: Chicago and “the East”: Dreiser, Adams, Mark Twain
11: The Youth: Stephen Crane
Part Three: Ruling by Style: History and the Moderns, 1900–1929
12: A Postponed Power: Henry Adams
13: Going to Europe: Eliot and Pound
14: “An American Tragedy” and “The Sound and the Fury”
15: Hemingway the Painter
Retrospect, 1932: The Twenties and the Great American Thing
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