Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Native Well Being: Henry James and the “Cosmopolite” 10
6. 2. The Mother’s Tongue: Seduction, Authenticity, and Interference in The Ambassadors 34
7. 3. Ezra Pound’s American Scenes: Henry James and the Labour of Translation 53
8. 4. Pound and Translation: Ideogram and the Vulgar Tongue 71
9. 5. Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and the American Language 95
10. 6. Jack Spicer’s After Lorca: Translation as Delocalization 118
11. 7. Homecomings: The Poet’s Prose of Ashbery, Schuyler and Spicer 140
12. Notes 160
13. Bibliography 185
14. Index 193