2. The Rules of the Game: Punishment in The Wide Wide World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Limits of Privacy 1
5. Part One. Discipline and Punish
6. 1. The Blithedale Romance and Other Tales of Association 17
7. 2. The Rules of the Game: Punishment in The Wide Wide World 51
8. Part Two. Race and the Law
9. 3. Huckleberry Finn; or, Consequences 81
10. 4. The Veil of Cedars: Charles Chesnutt and Conversion 107
11. Part Three. The Public Life
12. 5. Addiction and the Ends of Desire 141
13. 6. Homo-Formalism: Analogy in The Sacred Fount 169
14. Notes 197
15. Index 231