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Acknowledgments ix Note on the Cover xiii Introduction xv 1 Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation 1 2 Romancing the State of Nature Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables 39 3 Loving Oneself Like a Nation Sovereign Selfhood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden 91 4 Dreaming of Urban Dispersion Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre 141 Notes 195 Bibliography 239 Index 275 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...