Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents xiii
4. I. Problems
5. I . Historicism Once More 3
6. 2. Literature, History, and Humanism 46
7. 3. Mass Culture/Popular Culture 64
8. 4. Robin Molineux on The Analyst's Couch 96
9. II. Occasions
10. 5. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating 109
11. 6. Hawthorne and The Sense of The Past; or, The Immortality of Major Molineux 137
12. 7. Hawthorne and the Twilight of Romance 175
13. 8. Whitman 200
14. 9. Henry James and His American 240
15. 10. Wallace Stevens 261
16. 11. Theodore Roethke: The Power of Sympathy 294
17. 12. Whitman and Our Hope for Poetry 327
18. Index 351