Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. List of Illustrations xiii
4. Note on Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. Part I: Critical Vortex
7. 1. Indices of a Problem 3
8. 2. Zenobia's Ghost 18
9. Part II: Numinous Mates
10. Introduction 33
11. 3. The Queen of All She Surveys 37
12. 4. Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Made Man 59
13. 5. Subservient Angel 74
14. 6. Democratic Mythmaking in The House of the Seven Gables 88
15. Part III: Marital Politics
16. Introduction 109
17. 7. Inward and Eternal Union 113
18. 8. Transplanting the Garden of Eden 126
19. 9. Androgynous Paradise Lost 138
20. 10. Soul-System in Salem 161
21. 11. Double Marriage, Double Adultery 184
22. 12. Domesticity as Redemption 199
23. Part IV: Roman Fever
24. 13. City of the Soul 215
25. 14. Repudiations and Inward War 225
26. 15. The Lions of Lust 240
27. 16. Spiritual Laws 248
28. 17. The Poet as Patriarch 256
29. Epilogue 273
30. Acknowledgments 285
31. Notes 289
32. Works Cited 311
33. Index 323