Chapter 4. Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Planet as Duration and Extension 1
6. Chapter 1. Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents 7
7. Chapter 2. World Religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam 23
8. Chapter 3. The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution 52
9. Chapter 4. Genre as World System: Epic, Novel, Henry James 73
10. Chapter 5. Transnational Beauty: Aesthetics and Treason, Kant and Pound 107
11. Chapter 6. Nonstandard Time: Robert Lowell, Latin Translations, Vietnam War 123
12. Chapter 7. African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue 142
13. Chapter 8. Ecology across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in Chinese 166
14. Notes 197
15. Index 237