The rise of the art-novel and the question of class: certain novels ; mental labor ; methodological philistinism: from difference to distinction
The mind's eye and mental labor: forms of distinction in the fiction of Henry James: the novel as a masterpiece; epistemologies of social class; the romance of romance: virtue unrewarded; divisive perpectivism
Social geometries: taking place in the Jamesian modernist text: the hidden dimensions of class; fictions ofthe mass; extraordinary readers
Downward mobilities: the prison of the womb and the architecture of career in Stephen Crane: house of fiction, house of shame ; urban ambitions: Crane, Wharton, O. Henry ; transient occupations: from Howells to Crane to Dos Passos
Highbrows and dumb blondes: literary intellectuals and the romance of intelligence: playing with dumb Anita Loos ; bad students and smart sets ; morons and moralizers: the eugenic romance ; smart white blacks: Mencken, Stein and race pastoral intellection
Faulkner's ambit: modernism, regionalism, and the location of cultural capital: racinations: a deeper South ; relations: modernism and mules
Making "literature" of it: Dashiell Hammett and the mysteries of high culture: God, Mammon, and Willard Wright; murdering representation
