Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self 1
5. Chapter 2 Poe and the transcendent self 24
6. Chapter 3 Emerson and Brownson: The scholar; the self, and society 37
7. Chapter 4 Whitman: Culture and self 52
8. Chapter 5 Howells: The rebel in the one-dimensional age 66
9. Chapter 6 Inner death and freedom in Henry James 84
10. Chapter 7 Charles Ives: A modern perversion of transcendentalism 100
11. Chapter 8 Beyond the Diver complex: The dynamics of modem individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald 108
12. Chapter 9 The radical individualism of William James: A theory of experience and the self for today 129
13. Chapter 10 After the sixties: The continuing search 140
14. Notes 151
15. Index 177