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Preface; 1. Scenes of nature, signs of men; 2. Notes for a comparisonbetween American and European Romanticism; 3. Problems and roles of theAmerican artist as portrayed by the American novelist; 4. James onHawthorne; 5. The lost America - the despair of Henry Adams and MarkTwain; 6. Henry James and Henry Adams; 7. William Dean Howells and AHazard of New Fortunes; 8. Stephen Crane; 9. The Bostonians and thehuman voice; 10. Games American writers play: ceremony, complicity,contestation, and carnival; 11. Toward an ultimate topography: the workof Joseph McElroy; 12. Frames and sentences; 13. William Gass's barnsand bees; Index.