When travelers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political
In 'the thick of the stream': Henry James and the public sphere
A 'gorgeous neutrality': social justice and Stephen Crane's documentary anaesthetics
Vicious gregariousness: white city, the nation form, and the souls of lynched folk
A 'moving mosaic': Harlem, primitivism, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand
Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma, and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska, and Roth.