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