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9780877457367

Reconstituting Authority : American Fiction in the Province of the Law, 1880-1920

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  • ISBN13:

    9780877457367

  • ISBN10:

    0877457360

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $34.00

Author Biography

William Moddelmog was formerly a lecturer in the University of California at Los Angeles writing program. He is assistant professor in the English Department at Ohio State University, Newark.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Professionalism in Law and Literature 1(30)
PART ONE The (Mis)Rule of Law
The ``Official'' Narratives of William Dean Howells
31(31)
Helen Hunt Jackson and the Romance of Indian Nationhood
62(36)
Narrating Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces
98(31)
PART TWO The Authority of Property
Charles Chesnutt's Fictions of Ownership
129(31)
Privacy and Subjectivity in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
160(30)
Theodore Dreiser's Progressive Nostalgia
190(31)
Notes 221(32)
Bibliography 253(16)
Index 269

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