Description: Preface vii New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions in to the Canon / Donald E. Pease 1 The Res Publica of Letters / Michael Warner 38 The Rationale for "The American Romance" / John McWilliams 71 Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock 83 Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville's Pierre / Priscilla Wald 100 The Rhetorical Use and Abuse of Fiction: Eating Books in Late Nineteenth-Century American / Steven Mailloux 133 Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 158 Realism, Ideology, and the Novel in American (1886-1896): Changing Perspectives in the Work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / Robert Weimann 189 American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass / Gregory S. Jay 211 "Ours by the Law of Naure": Romance and Independents on Mark Twain's River / Howard Horwitz 243 Cataloging the Creatures of the Deep: "Billy Budd, Sailor" and the Rise of Sociology / Susan Misruchi 272 Violence, Revolution and the Cost of Freedom: John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / WIlliam E. Cain 305 Contributors 331 Index 333

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