Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Written to the Future 1
4. Chapter 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity 24
5. Chapter 2. ‘‘A Magnificent Fragment’’: Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance 63
6. Chapter 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism 125
7. Chapter 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing 157
8. Epilogue. The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom 187
9. Notes 201
10. Bibliography 229
11. Index 241
12. Acknowledgments 251