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Contents Prologue IX Acknowledgments XIX THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE PART ONE 1. Irving's Paradigm 3 2. Hawthorne's Awakening in the Customhouse 19 3. Melville's High on the Seas 35 4. Poe's Voyage from Edgartown 53 5- Emerson's Beautiful Estate 72 6. Thoreau's Quarrel with Emerson 88 THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: PART TWO 7. Whitman's Idea of Women 109 8. Twain's Cigar-Store Indians 125 g. Dickinson's Unpublished Canon 141 10. Henry James's Pearl at a Great Price 160 11. Chopin's Twenty-Ninth Bather 177 12. Dreiser's Novel About a Nun 195 Epilogue 2 1 1 Notes 219 Index 241 ...

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