Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction. The “Feminization” of American Naturalism 1
6. 1. The compulsion to describe Naturalist Subjects, Naturalist History 37
7. 2. The great indoors Regionalism, Feminism, and Obsessional Domesticity 75
8. 3. A mania for the moment Fadmongering and Feminism in Henry James 123
9. 4. The new woman and the old man Sentimentality and “Drift” in Dreiser and Wharton 161
10. 5. Saving herself Gender, Preservation, and Futurity in McTeague 201
11. 6. The rhythm method Unmothering the Race in Chopin, Stein, and Grimké 233
12. Conclusion 275
13. Notes 281
14. Works cited 305
15. Index 325