Table of Contents
List of Plates |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting (in) William Dean Howells |
Chapter 1: Realism and the Politics of Countermemory |
Chapter 2: The Memory Crisis, Advertising, and the Ambivalence of Amnesia in “A Sleep and a Forgetting” |
Chapter 3: “To Make up an America Among Ourselves”: History, Memory, and the Turkish Room |
Chapter 4: Cultural Memory, Spiritualism, and Howells’s Ghost Stories |
Chapter 5: “We Haven’t Any of us Perfect Memories, Have We?”: Monuments, Photographs, and the Construction of Memory |