Съдържание:
  • Introduction:
  • On the politics of literature
  • Palpable designs: four American short stories:
  • An American dream: "Rip Van Winkle" ;
  • Growing up male in America: "I want to know why" ;
  • Women beware science: "The birthmark" ;
  • A rose for "A rose for Emily"
  • A farewell to arms" Hemingway's "resentful cryptogram"
  • The great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's droit de seigneur
  • The Bostonians: Henry James's eternal triangle
  • An American dream: "Hula, hula," said the witches.