附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Sources, influences, and intertexts -- Authors, intentions, and texts -- What if Poe's humorous tales were funny? Poe's "x-ing a paragrab" and Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee" -- Hawthorne's last tales and "The custom-house" -- The judege dragged to the bar: Melville, Shaw, and the Webster murder trial -- Mark Twain in his short works -- The short stories of Ambrose Bierce -- Realism, the "real," and the poet of reality: some reflections on American realists and the poetry of Wallace Stevens -- In the shallow light of the present: the moral geography of Death comes for the archbishop -- Fitzgerald and Cather: The great Gatsby -- A source for "Where are you going, where have you been?" -- Justice on the reservation: Tony Hillerman's novels and the conflict between federal and tribal jurisdiction -- The trying out of genetic inquiry.
