Tony TannerThe Reign of Wonder
Naivety and Reality in American Literature
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the sleep of reason
Part I. The Transcendentalists: 1. Saints behold: the transcendentalist point of view
2. Emerson: the unconquered eye and the enchanted circle
3. Thoreau and the sauntering eye
4. Walt Whitman's ecstatic first step
Part II. Mark Twain: 6. The doctors of the wilderness
7. A system of reduction
8. The voice of the outlaw
9. The pond of youth
10. Huck Finn and the reflections of a saphead
Part III. The Twentieth Century: 11. Gertrude Stein and the complete actual present
12. Sherwood Anderson's Little Things
13. Ernest Hemingway's Unhurried Sensations
Part IV. Henry James: 14. The candid outsider
15. The range of wonderment
16. The subjective adventure
Afterword: wonder and alienation - the mystic and the moviegoer
References
Index.