Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Rise of the Art-Novel and the Question of Class
  • 1. The Mind's Eye and Mental Labor: Forms of Distinction in the Fiction of Henry James
  • 2. Social Geometries: Taking Place in the Jamesian Modernist Text
  • 3. Downward Mobilities: The Prison of the Womb and the Architecture of Career in Stephen Crane
  • 4. Highbrows and Dumb Blondes: Literary Intellectuals and the Romance of Intelligence
  • 5. Faulkner's Ambit: Modernism, Regionalism, and the Location of Cultural Capital
  • 6. Making "Literature" of It: Dashiell Hammett and the Mysteries of High Culture
  • Afterword: Mobius Fictions.