Introduction / Kenneth H. Baldwin and David K. Kirby ix
The Empty World of Wieland / J. V. Ridgely 3
The Limits of Romance: A Reading of The Marble Faun / Edgar A. Dryden 17
Day-Dream and Fact: The Import of The Blithedale Romance / Roy Harvey Pearce 49
"The Begum of Bengal": Mark Twain and the South / Louis D. Rubin Jr. 64
Hemingway's Empirical Imagination / Carlos Baker 94
Faulkner's "Country" as Ideal Community / Philip Momberger 112
Sanctuary: Yoknapatawpha's Waste Land / James E. Miller Jr. 137
Djuana Barnes and Surrealism: "Backward Grief" / James Baird 160
The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying of Lot / Edward Mendelson 182
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