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Tables of Contents for Seers and Judges
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
The ``Seer'': The Democratic Poet's Recognition and Transcendence
1
16
Huckleberry Finn and Twain's Democratic Art of Writing
17
16
Tocquevillian Americans: Henry James, Daisy Miller, Pandora Day
33
16
The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton's Critique of American Society
49
24
Singing an American Song: Tocquevillian Reflections on Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
73
14
A Man of Will
87
14
Percy and Tocqueville on American Aristocracy and Democracy
101
20
Men and Money in Tom Wolfe's America
121
16
The Technological Culture of Nihilism: John Updike's Protestant Pilgrimage and Walker Percy's Catholic Naturalism
137
22
Index
159
10
About the Contributors
169