Acknowledgements Note on brief titles Introduction: the nature of inheritance 1. Autobiography and the writing of significance 2. Reading the 'man without a handle': Emerson and the construction of a partial portrait 3. 'Under certain circumstances': Jamesian reflections on the fall 4. Doing 'public justice': New England reform and The Bostonians 5. Breaking the mould Conclusion: 'the imminence of a transformation scene' Notes Index.
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