Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. For Marston LaFrance v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface xi
5. The Stoic Strain in American Literature 1
6. Towards 'Bartleby the Scrivener' 19
7. Walt Whitman and Stoicism 43
8. Henry James: 'The Voice of Stoicism' 63
9. A Reading of Frank Norris's The Pit 77
10. The Mock-Heroics of Desire: Some Stoic Personae in the Work of William Carlos Williams 97
11. Death and Birth in Hemingway 115
12. His 'Magnum O': Stoic Humanism in Faulkner's A Fable 135
13. Saul Bellow and the Example of Dostoevsky 157
14. The Moviegoer and the Stoic Heritage 179
15. Marston LaFrance: A Tribute and Memorial Bibliography 193
16. Notes 199
17. Notes on Contributors 221