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A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I.THE EMPIRICAL ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL -- II.EMPIRICISM AND THE AMERICAN NOVEL -- III.BRACKENRIDGE: IDEAS AND THE MAN OF REASON -- IV.BROWN: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES -- V.COOPER: IDEAS AND LESSONS -- VI.HAWTHORNE: THE INTELLECTUAL AS OUTSIDER -- VII.ISHMAEL AND MELVILLE: THE DEMOCRAT AS MAN THINKING AND MAN CREATING -- INDEX -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 .PROLOGOS -- 2. THE LINEAMENTS OF "FATHER ORPHEUS" -- 3. THE SYMBOLISTE PARALLELS: AN INTERLUDE -- 4. THE RIMBAUD FACTOR -- 5. EPILOGOS -- APPENDIX - SOURCES OF SECTION EPIGRAPHS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS AND LIMITATIONS -- NEMESIS -- STRUCTURE -- II. ABORTION, THIRST, AND THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES -- INTRODUCTION -- ABORTION -- THIRST -- THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES -- CONCLUSION -- III. THE HAIRY APE -- IV. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS -- V. MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: HOMECOMING -- PART TWO: THE HUNTED -- PART THREE: THE HAUNTED -- CONCLUSION -- VI. THE ICEMAN COMETH -- VII. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY