Introduction -- Love and Depth Canonized: Anti-Catholicism and the Shaping of American Literary Standards -- Sentimental Communion: The Word Made Manifest in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Gates Ajar -- Romantic Spectatorship: Self-Portrait as a Stranger's Head in The Blithedale Romance and Pierre -- Realistic Intercourse: Arranging Oneself for Another in The Morgesons and The Golden Bowl -- Love and Depth Revisited: History, Form, and the Ethics of Reading American Literature Now.
Summary:
"By examining classic nineteenth-century American novels, this book proposes a new approach to reading that reconciles historicist and ethical approaches to literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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