Surface and Depth : The Quest for Legibility in American Culture.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PROLOGUE : Freud's Night Out -- 1 Three Foundational Documents and Their Indelibility -- 2 Majoritarian and Racial Tyranny: Tocqueville and Beaumont -- 3 Popular Forms -- Cooper and the Western -- Poe and the Detective Story -- Fanny Fern and the Celebrity Novel -- 4 The Nineteenth-Century Canon: Hidden in Plain Sight -- The Scarlet Letter -- Melville's Moby-Dick -- Thoreau's Walden -- James's The American -- 5 Freud and Film Redux -- 6 Twentieth-Century Classics and New Technologies of Legibility -- Wharton's Summer -- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a "Modernist" Western -- Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises -- 7 Race/Erasure: Douglass to Roth -- EQUIVOCAL EPILOGUE : Total Visibility in Utopia and Dystopia -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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