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Tables of Contents for Transfiguring America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction Idolatry, Mourning, and Ideology
1
24
Escaping from Rome
25
22
Ideological Resistance and Mythmaking in the ``Autobiographical Romance''
Visions of (Di)Anna
47
18
Finding ``the Oracle in Woman''
Lunar Flowers
65
18
Exploring the Divine Feminine
Pursuing ``Leila''
83
22
The Languages of the Goddess
Creating Harmony
105
30
Psychological Mythmaking in ``The Great Lawsuit''
Charting Disharmony
135
32
The Flawed Literary Personae of Summer on the Lakes
Soul ``Swathed in Body''
167
42
Grief, Rebirth, and Transformation in the 1844 Poetry
Saving Iphigenia
209
19
The Cultural Work of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Re-Forming the Social Body
228
34
Molding Public Attention in New York
Phoenix Rising
262
33
The Transfiguration of Italy (and America)
Bibliography
295
16
Index
311