Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Proof

Sources, Influences, and Intertexts

Authors, Intentions, and Texts

The Pudding

What If Poe's Humorous Tales Were Funny? Poe's ``X-ing a Paragrab'' and Twain's ``Journalism in Tennessee''

Hawthorne's Last Tales and ``The Custom-House''

The Judge Dragged to the Bar: Melville, Shaw, and the Webster Murder Trial

Mark Twain in His Short Works

The Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Realism, the ``Real,'' and the Poet of Reality: Some Reflections on American Realists and the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

In the Shallow Light of the Present: The Moral Geography of Death Comes for the Archbishop

Fitzgerald and Cather: The Great Gatsby

A Source for ``Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?''

Justice on the Reservation: Tony Hillerman's Novels and the Conflict between Federal and Tribal Jurisdiction

A Postscript

The Trying Out of Genetic Inquiry

A Checklist of Publications

Index