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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Rise of the Art-Novel and theQuestion of Class 1 Certain Novels 1 Mental Labor 10 MethodologicalPhilistinism: From Difference to Distinction 19 One: The Mind's Eye andMental Labor: Forms of Distinction in the Fiction of Henry James 30 TheNovel as Masterpiece 30 Epistemologies of Social Class 42 The Romance ofRomance: Virtue Unrewarded 49 Divisive Perspectivism 53 Two: SocialGeometries: Taking Place in the Jamesian Modernist Text 57 The HiddenDimensions of Class 57 Fictions of the Class 66 Extraordinary Readers 74Three: Downward Mobilities: The Prison of the Womb and the Architecture ofCareer in Stephen Crane 78 House of Fiction, House of Shame 78 UrbanAmbitions: Crane, Wharton, O. Henry 85 Transient Occupations: From Howellsto Crane to Dos Passos 102 Four: Highbrows and Du b Blondes: LiteraryIntellectuals and the Romance of Intelligence 106 Playing Dumb with AnitaLoos 106 Bad Students and Smart Sets 111 Morons and Moralizers: The EugenicRomance 118 Smart White Blacks: Mencken, Stein, and Race 124 PastoralIntellection 129 Five: Faulkner's Ambit: Modernism, Regionalism, and theLocation of Cultural Capital 135 Racinations: A Deeper South 135 Relations:Modernism and Mules 146 Six Making "Literature" of It: Dashiell Ha ett andthe Mysteries of High Culture 158 God, Mammon, and Willard Wright 158Murdering Representation 166 Afterword: Mobius Fictions 177 Notes 183Index 215