Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-193) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Critical formalism and identity in Americanist criticism; Chapter 1 Types of interest: Scottish theory, literary nationalism, and John Neal; Chapter 2 Sensing Hawthorne: the figure of Hawthorne's affect; Chapter 3 "Life is an ecstasy": Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott; Chapter 4 Laws of experience: truth and feeling in Harriet Beecher Stowe; Notes; Bibliography; Index