Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hans Christian Andersen -- Henry David Thoreau -- Herman Melville -- Emily Dickinson -- Lewis Carroll -- William Butler Yeats -- Sherwood Anderson -- Opal Whiteley -- Autistic autobiography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bartleby, el escribiente / Herman Melville. El Ultimo de los valerio / Henry James. Suerte / Mark Twain. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm -- Sounding: Henry David Thoreau -- Ranting: Herman Melville -- Distributing: Ezra Pound -- Presenting: Marianne Moore -- Circulating: Frank O'Hara -- Relishing: James Schuyler -- Afterword: enthusiasm and audit…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Columbian strains: the diffusion of epic form in early America -- Constitutional epic: old rules for an unprecedented genre -- Epic on canvas: the history of a critical term -- Transcendental epic; or, Importing the new traditions -- Tracking epic through the leather-stocking tales -- Lydia Sigourney and the Indian epic's work of mourning -- Longfellow's pantheon -- Melville's epic career…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature…”