Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One: Theoretical and Historical Prologue
1. Introduction: Literature, Inc.
2. Ghosts and Muses: Henry James
Part Two: The Twentieth Century
3. Machine Age and Beyond: From West to DeLillo
4. Letters and Spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts
5. Promise and Prophecy: The Artist’s Vision in The Day of the Locust
6. Quilty the Guilty: Scapegoating Mass Culture in Lolita
7. The American Way and Its Double in Lot 49
8. From Tombstone to Tabloid: Authority Figured in White Noise
9. Mao II: A Portrait of the Artist in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Part Three: Epilogue
10. Concluding Unsystematic Speculation: Within the Crisis of No Crisis
Notes
Bibliography
Index