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| Introduction | ||
| Prologue: Freud's Night Out | 3 | |
| 1 | Three Foundational Documents and Their Indelibility | 5 |
| 2 | Majoritarian and Racial Tyranny: Tocqueville and Beaumont | 52 |
| 3 | Popular Forms | 58 |
| Cooper and the Western | 59 | |
| Poe and the Detective Story | 64 | |
| Fanny Fern and the Celebrity Novel | 71 | |
| 4 | The Nineteenth-Century Canon: Hidden in Plain Sight | 79 |
| The Scarlet Letter | 80 | |
| Melville's Moby-Dick | 87 | |
| Thoreau's Walden | 94 | |
| James's The American | 100 | |
| 5 | Freud and Film Redux | 108 |
| 6 | Twentieth-Century Classics and New Technologies of Legibility | 128 |
| Wharton's Summer | 129 | |
| Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a "Modernist" Western | 137 | |
| Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises | 149 | |
| 7 | Race/Erasure: Douglass to Roth | 159 |
| Equivocal Epilogue: Total Visibility in Utopia and Dystopia | 183 | |
| Notes | 189 | |
| Index | 211 |
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Mamie Ault
reviewed Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture on October 27, 2016
Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
Her literary analysis of Moby Dick is really stirring. The work in and of itself is important, but the book is often uneven. She moves from cartography to Melville to housing sectioning as examples of the workings of whiteness in society and how it inscribes itself as dominant normalcy (and, in the case of Melville, how you work against that), and these are all fine examples, but they are disparate and she doesn't make a good case as to why these examples all belong together (why not all lit? all housing/education studies? etc.)
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