Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Too Too Utterly Utter 6
5. 2 More Wonderful Than Dickens 26
6. 3 Those Who Dawnce Don’t Dine 49
7. 4 What Would Thoreau Have Said to My Hat-Box! 71
8. 5 No Well-Behaved River Ought to Act This Way 97
9. 6 A Very Italy, Without Its Art 121
10. 7 Don’t Shoot the Pianist; He’s Doing His Best 143
11. 8 You Should Have Seen It Before the War 163
12. 9 The Oscar of the First Period Is Dead 189
13. Notes 215
14. Acknowledgments 233
15. Index 235