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Tables of Contents for Trying It Out in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue
ix
Accurate Gusto
3
17
Marianne Moore
Elusive Whitman
20
16
Reaching Frank O'Hara
36
19
Balanchine in America
55
23
The Hidden T.S. Eliot
78
26
Bette Midler in Concert
104
11
Allusive Pop
Erasing America
115
30
Baudrillard's America Deserta
Martin Amis's Inferno
Peter Conrad's Confusions
Vidal's American Empire
145
10
The Case of Arthur Inman
155
10
Is There an American Manhood?
165
18
``Manly Agitations''
183
20
Gertrude Stein
``Are they my poor?'': Emerson's Steinian Question
203
15
In Cold Ink: Truman Capote
218
8
Mailer's Strangest Book
226
12
In Praise of Vagueness: Henry and William James
238
16
Melville's Vanity of Failure
254
23
Whitman: The End Game
277
20
Acknowledgments
297
2
Index
299