Still the new world: American literature in a culture of creative destruction

pt. 1. American abstraction. Democratic social space

Whitman and the poetics of a democratic social space

pt. 2. Defecting from American abstraction. Transparency and obscurity : Melville's Benito Cereno

Hierarchical social space : Twain, James, and Howells

pt. 3. Regionalism. Membership and identity

Episodes of regionalism

pt. 4. Realism. Realisms of detail, state, and voice

Inventing new frames for realism.