Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing Region in the New Century
Part I: “Is New York Such a Labyrinth?”: Street Life and Amalgamation in Wharton’s and Glasgow’s City
1. Men of the Mob and “Fascinatingly American” Women
2. “‘Et Que Cétait comme dans Le Livre’”: Wharton, the Harlem Renaissance, and All That Jazz
Part II: “Virginia Is Not Dead but Sleepeth”: Segregation and the “Family Black and White” in Glasgow’s and Cather’s South
3. Family Reunion: Slavery as Usable Past
4. A House Divided: The Interracial Family and the White Supremacist Community
Part III: “Fortunate Country”: Old Immigrants and New Women in Cather’s and Wharton’s West
5. How the West Was Whitened
6. New Women and the World of Business
Conclusion: “Always, Everywhere, Inferior"
Notes
Bibliography
Index