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Tables of Contents for The Brazen Face of History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the 1997 Edition
xi
4
Preface
xv
4
Acknowledgments
xix
PART I
3
124
1 / The Printer as American Man of Letters
3
20
2 / The Symbolism of Literary Alienation in the Revolutionary Age
23
24
3 / The Fiction of the Real American Revolution
47
20
4 / Slavery and Modernism
67
18
Coda / The Act of Thought in Virginia
85
18
5 / The Civil War and the Failure of Literary Mind in America
103
12
6 / The Southern Exodus from Arcadia
115
12
PART II
127
150
7 / The Will to Art in Postbellum America
127
8
8 / The Spectatorial Attitude
135
24
Coda / The Decorum of the Writer
159
8
9 / The Bard and the Clerk
167
14
10 / The Legend of the Artist
181
28
11 / A Fable of Civilization
209
24
12 / What Survivors Do
233
22
13 / The Closure of History in a Postsouthern America
255
22
Index
277