Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction
6. 1. Ethos vs. Pathos 1
7. 2. Pragmatic Philosophers and Realistic Novelists 3
8. 1. The Ethical Imperative: "Self, Self, Self in Victorian Fiction
9. 1."Self 11
10. 2. Religious Humanism 13
11. 3. Renunciation 14
12. 4. The Psychology of "Self 16
13. 5. The Analysis of "Self: Romola 17
14. 6. The Reaction from Analysis: The Cat on the Vivisection Table 20
15. 2. Whitman's Body: Kinesthetic Imagery and Sexual Pathos in "Song of Myself
16. Introduction 24
17. 1. Dissociations 25
18. 2. Reconstitutions 34
19. 3. A Modern Instance'. Pathos Subordinated to Ethos
20. 1. Whitman and Pathos, Eliot and Ethos 48
21. 2. Physical Signs as Ethical Signs 51
22. 3. Community Ethos: Ideal Motivations 52
23. 4. Tropisms: Real Motivations 53
24. 5. Bartley's Reveries: The Ethical Structuring of Consciousness 54
25. 6. Conscience as Inner Debate 56
26. 7. Negative Essence and False Consciousness 58
27. 8. Marital Realpolitik and the Stages of Degeneration 60
28. 9. Chance, Timing, Rhythm 64
29. 10. Punitive Tragedy 67
30. 4. Henry James: An Ethics of Intensity
31. I. "The Beast in the Jungle" 71
32. II. The Wings of the Dove 79
33. 5. Dreiser: Pathos as Ethos
34. 1. Dreiser's Barbaric Naturalism: The Ethical Attack 103
35. 2. Pathos as Ethos 105
36. 3. Dreiser's Platonism: "When I Read Spencer I Could Only Sigh" 112
37. 4. Carrie's Face: The Natural Expression of Longing 122
38. 5. Dreiser and Howells: Two Modes of Realism 126
39. 6. An American Tragedy: Sympathy and Discomfort 133
40. 6. Stein's "Melanctha": An Education in Pathos
41. 1. Stein as Radical Empiricist 143
42. 2. Understanding Wandering 147
43. 3. Real Experience: "The Squeeze of This World's Life" 151
44. 4. Melanctha and Jeff: Pathos vs. Ethos 155
45. Conclusion 163
46. Notes 167
47. Index 203