A History of American Literature

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 267 with reference to all responsibilities and probable consequences. In choosing to go b ...

268 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 6 years old when her parents are divorced. The strategy enables James to achieve econ ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 269 In the last few decades of his life, James devoted much of his time to preparing the ...

270 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 essays; “each locality must produce its own literary record, each special phase of li ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 271 rehearsing, sometimes quietly and at other times with anger, all that is lost or deni ...

272 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 And the vision of injustice, inequity he sees everywhere around him in “the moiling s ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 273 natural landscape – the ocean, the desert, the plains, the polar wastes – or into fra ...

274 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 At the end of the novel, McTeague is an almost monstrous figure. When the reader last ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 275 Shelgrim the railroad president and Behrman a railroad employee, and a strange charac ...

276 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 impressed. In terms of substance, they express a sense of existence that is even more ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 277 selection and suggestion to saturation. He picks out carefully chosen details, intima ...

278 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 intimation is, is “tiny but not inconsequent,” he can achieve some moral agency in an ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 279 Like The Octopus, too, it offers the reader a powerful mix of socialist message and p ...

280 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 song of the pack.” A comparison with earlier American texts inscribing a return to na ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 281 Inadvertently, by their very weakness, they reveal where London’s fundamental sympath ...

282 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 Freeman did, at how women could get the attention of society, and men in particular; ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 283 Magazine: one of a number of important black periodicals of the time that included im ...

284 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 my race.” And her declarations of independence – her insistence, for example, that sh ...

Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 285 experienced debt and dependency as a child was determined to avoid them as an adult; ...

286 Reconstructing, Reimagining: 1865–1900 reflects, “considered ‘play-actin’ as the sum of all iniquity”; and, in becoming an a ...