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Acknowledgements; Note on brief titles; Introduction: the nature ofinheritance; 1. Autobiography and the writing of significance; 2. Reading the'man without a handle': Emerson and the construction of a partial portrait;3. 'Under certain circumstances': Jamesian reflections on the fall; 4. Doing'public justice': New England reform and The Bostonians; 5. Breaking themould; Conclusion: 'the imminence of a transformation scene'; Notes; Index.