Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Culture, Ethnicity, Authority 1
5. 1. Matthew Arnold Culture and Ethnicity 33
6. 2. William Dean Howells: Realism, Ethnicity and the Nation 72
7. 3. W. B. Yeats: Celticism, Aestheticism and Nationalism 121
8. 4. W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Folk in the Kingdom of Culture 176
9. Conclusion 224
10. Bibliography 229
11. Index 256