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Tables of Contents for Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Selected List of Publications
xv
Introduction: ``Culture,'' New Historicism, and the Sociology of Literary Vocation
1
14
I Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
15
17
Arts of Deception: Hawthorne, ``Romance,'' and The Scarlet Letter
32
22
The House of the Seven Gables
54
13
II Conditions of Literary Vocation
Beginnings of Professionalism
67
67
Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s
134
55
III African-American Writing and the Legacy of the ``Protest'' Debate
African-American Writing, ``Protest,'' and the Burden of Naturalism: The Case of Native Son
189
28
Notes
217
8
Index
225