List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Authoring the Self: Gender, Identity, and Authorial Self-Construction in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture
PART 1 Purloined Letters: The Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe
1 Gender and the Scene of Writing: Homophobia, the Feminine, and Narrative in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
2 Edgar Allan Poe and the Purloined Mother
PART 2 Circuits of Desire: Authority in the Early and Late Fiction of Henry James
3 Early Authorizations in Roderick Hudson and The American
4 Late Authorizations in The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove
PART 3 Ruptured Bodies, Ruptured Tales: Masculine Injury and Transcendence in Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Literature
5 What a Beating Feels Like: Authorship, Dissolution, and Masculinity in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
6 Behind the Lines: Homoerotic Anxiety and the Heroic in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
Conclusion: Beyond Influence, Beyond Homoeroticism, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Notes
Index