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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Reading for Life 9
- 2. Reading, Agency, and the Question of “Fate” 41
- 3. Foundling Texts: Originality and Authorship in Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses” 75
- 4. Response and Responsibility: Stevens, Williams, and the Ethics of Modernism 107
- Notes 159
- Index 177
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Reading for Life 9
- 2. Reading, Agency, and the Question of “Fate” 41
- 3. Foundling Texts: Originality and Authorship in Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses” 75
- 4. Response and Responsibility: Stevens, Williams, and the Ethics of Modernism 107
- Notes 159
- Index 177
