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Girgus, Sam B.. "Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self". The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature, New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.7560/746220-002

Girgus, S. (1979). Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self. In The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature (pp. 1-23). New York, USA: University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/746220-002

Girgus, S. 1979. Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self. The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature. New York, USA: University of Texas Press, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.7560/746220-002

Girgus, Sam B.. "Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self" In The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature, 1-23. New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 1979. https://doi.org/10.7560/746220-002

Girgus S. Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self. In: The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature. New York, USA: University of Texas Press; 1979. p.1-23. https://doi.org/10.7560/746220-002

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self 1
Chapter 2 Poe and the transcendent self 24
Chapter 3 Emerson and Brownson: The scholar; the self, and society 37
Chapter 4 Whitman: Culture and self 52
Chapter 5 Howells: The rebel in the one-dimensional age 66
Chapter 6 Inner death and freedom in Henry James 84
Chapter 7 Charles Ives: A modern perversion of transcendentalism 100
Chapter 8 Beyond the Diver complex: The dynamics of modem individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald 108
Chapter 9 The radical individualism of William James: A theory of experience and the self for today 129
Chapter 10 After the sixties: The continuing search 140
Notes 151
Index 177

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self 1
Chapter 2 Poe and the transcendent self 24
Chapter 3 Emerson and Brownson: The scholar; the self, and society 37
Chapter 4 Whitman: Culture and self 52
Chapter 5 Howells: The rebel in the one-dimensional age 66
Chapter 6 Inner death and freedom in Henry James 84
Chapter 7 Charles Ives: A modern perversion of transcendentalism 100
Chapter 8 Beyond the Diver complex: The dynamics of modem individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald 108
Chapter 9 The radical individualism of William James: A theory of experience and the self for today 129
Chapter 10 After the sixties: The continuing search 140
Notes 151
Index 177

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