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

Contents Acknowledgments....................ix
INTRODUCTION Professionalism in Law and Literature....................1
PART ONE The (Mis)Rule of Law CHAPTER 1 The "Official" Narratives of William Dean Howells....................31
CHAPTER 2 Helen Hunt Jackson and the Romance of Indian Nationhood....................62
CHAPTER 3 Narrating Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces....................98
PART TWO The Authority of Property CHAPTER 4 Charles Chesnutt's Fictions of Ownership....................129
CHAPTER 5 Privacy and Subjectivity in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth....................160
CHAPTER 6 Theodore Dreiser's Progressive Nostalgia....................190
Notes....................221
Bibliography....................253
Index....................269