Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION The U.S. Bildungsroman’s Regional Complex 1
5. Part I Midwestern Naturalism
6. CHAPTER 1 Industrial Folklore and the Regional Ingénue in Dreiser and Sinclair 25
7. CHAPTER 2 Developing the Countryside: Cather, Hughes, and the Poetics of Rurality 45
8. CHAPTER 3 South Side’s Overdevelopment: Farrell and Wright’s Extreme Youths 69
9. Part II The Northeast’s Young Aesthetes
10. CHAPTER 4 Emplacing Modernism: The Fitzgeralds and the Artist’s Regional Complex 101
11. CHAPTER 5 Thurman and Fauset’s Portraits of Harlem’s Regional Artist 140
12. Part III Southern Underdevelopment
13. CHAPTER 6 Imagining The Region of Underdevelopment 179
14. CHAPTER 7 The Way of the World: Hurston’s Folkloric Bildungsroman 186
15. CHAPTER 8 Caught and Loose: McCullers, O’Connor, and the Gothic Bildungsroman 201
16. Part IV Southwest Frontiers
17. CHAPTER 9 Mathews at the Limits of the Bildungsroman’s National Framework 231
18. AFTERWORD Situating the Bildungsroman’s Transnational Afterlives 244
19. WORKS CITED 247
20. INDEX 258