Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-216) and index
Modernity and nature in Emerson -- - Emerson, Whitman, and the problem of culture -- - George Santayana and Van Wyck Brooks: Pragmatism and the genteel tradition -- - John Dewey: Pragmatism, modernism, and aesthetic criticism -- - Kenneth Burke: Modernism and the motives of rhetoric -- - Conclusion: Rhetoric, neopragmatism, border studies -- Beyond the contingency blues