Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Work of Genius 1
4. Chapter 1. “It Spoke Itself ”: Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott’s Work 33
5. Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James’s The Bostonians 66
6. Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius 101
7. Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation 134
8. Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s There Is Confusion 177
9. Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France 213
10. Notes 239
11. Bibliography 267
12. Index 281
13. Acknowledgments 289