Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: On the Politics of Literature
1. Palpable Designs: Four American Short Stories
An American Dream: Rip Van Winkle
Growing Up Male in America: I Want to Know Why
Women Beware Science: The Birthmark
A Rose for A Rose for Emily
2. A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway's Resentful Cryptogram
3. The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's droit de seigneur
4. The Bostonians: Henry James's Eternal Triangle
5. An American Dream: Hula, Hula, Said the Witches
Notes