Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 "I" and "You" in the American Renaissance 9
6. 2 The Politics of Emerson's Man-Making Words 42
7. 3 Three Ideologies of Manhood, Four Narratives of Humiliation 72
8. 4 Frederick Douglass's Self-Refashioning 108
9. 5 Two Genteel Women Look at Men: Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland 135
10. 6 Impassioned Women: The Wide, Wide World and Uncle Tom's Cabin 171
11. 7 Hard, Isolate, Ruthless, and Patrician: Dana and Parkman 205
12. 8 Devious Men: Hawthorne 227
13. 9 Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter 259
14. 10 Ahab's Queenly Personality: A Man Is Being Beaten 279
15. Notes 307
16. Index 363