Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Law, Higher Law, and the Irony of American History 10
7. 2 Neutral Territory: Pragmatism 34
8. 3 Neutral Territory II: Mourning and Experience 43
9. 4 Elegies, Love, and Accommodation 66
10. 5 The Ballad of Billie Potts and Value 84
11. 6 Audubon and Evasion 92
12. 7 Landscape and Death 112
13. 8 Romance and Extravagance 121
14. 9 Social Realism and Romance: Night Rider 127
15. 10 The Emergence of Romance in All the l(ing)s Men 141
16. 11 The Self-Subversion of Value: World Enough and Time 172
17. 12 Brother to Dragons: A Verse-Romance 199
18. Notes 219
19. Index 231