The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945

Contents

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