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A preface in two parts; Acknowledgements; A note on sources, citationsand bibliography; Part I. A Dream City, Lyric Years and a Great War: 1. Thenovel as ironic reflection; 2. Confidence and uncertainty in The Portrait ofa Lady; 3. Lines of expansion; 4. Four contemporaries and the closing of theWest; 5. Chicago's 'dream city'; 6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the dreamcity; 7. Henry Adam's Education and the grammar of progress; 8. Jack London'scareer and popular discourse; 9. Innocence and revolt in the 'lyric years':1900-1916; 10. The Armory show of 1913 and the decline of innocence; 11. Theplay of hope and despair; 12. The Great War and the fate of writing; Part II.Fiction in a Time of Plenty: 13. When the war was over: the return ofdetachment; 14. The 'jazz age' and the 'lost generation' revisited; 15. Theperils of plenty, or how the twenties acquired a paranoid tilt; 16.Disenchantment, flight and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty;17. Class, power and violence in a new age; 18. The fear of feminisation andthe logic of modest ambition; 19. Marginality and authority/race, gender andregion; 20. War as metaphor: the example of Ernest Hemingway; Part III. TheFate of Writing during the Great Depression: 21. The discovery of poverty andthe return of commitment; 22. The search for 'culture' as a form ofcommitment; 23. Three responses: the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnesand John Dos Passos; 24. Cowboys, detectives and other tough-guy antinomians:residual individualism and hedged commitments; 25. The search for sharedpurpose: struggles on the Left; 26. Documentary literature and the disarmingof dissent; 27. The Southern Renaissance: forms of reaction and innovation;28. History and novels/novels and history: the example of William Faulkner;Notes; Bibliographical notes; Bibliography; Index.