Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The Analytic Instinct and the Art of the Crash 1
4. Chapter 1. Literature and the Museum Idea 22
5. Chapter 2. Realism and the Gordian Knot of Aesthetics and Politics 69
6. Chapter 3. Women and the Realism of Desire 109
7. Chapter 4. Celebrity Warriors, Impossible Diplomats, and the Native Public Sphere 151
8. Chapter 5. Black Bohemia and the African American Novel 188
9. Chapter 6. Wharton, Mass Travel, and the ‘‘Possible Crash’’ 218
10. Chapter 7. Neurological Modernity and American Social Thought 247
11. Conclusion. Literary Analysis and the Perception of Incongruities 288
12. Notes 303
13. Index 349
14. Acknowledgments 363