Table of Contents: “…-- Ecocriticism and science -- Et in arcadia ego: pastoral meets ecocriticism -- Place, style, and human nature in Willa Cather's The professor's house -- Hemingway among the animals -- The realist in altruria: evolution, utopianism, and ecology in William Dean Howells.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The composition of The professor's house /…”

Table of Contents: “…Professor Fargo --…”

Table of Contents: “…Petrie -- Challenge and compliance: textual strategies in a Country doctor and nineteenth-century American women's medical autobiographies / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- From transcendentalism to ecofeminism: Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewett's island views revisited / Marcia B. Littenberg -- The professor and the Pointed firs: Cather, Jewett, and problems of editing / Ann Romines -- Visions of New England: the anxiety of Jewett's influence on Ethan Frome / Priscilla Leder -- "Whiteness" as loss in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The foreigner" / Mitzi Schrag -- "How clearly the gradations of society were defined": negotiating class in Sarah Orne Jewett / Alison Easton -- Party out of bounds: gender and class in Jewett's "the Best china saucer" / Sarah Way Sherman -- "A brave happiness": rites and celebrations in Jewett's ordered past / Graham Frater -- We do not all go two by two; or, abandoning the ark / Patti Capel Swartz -- Sarah Orne Jewett's Maine: a journey back / Carol Schachinger.…”

Table of Contents: “…Eliot's Calvinist modernism / Loris Mirella -- "Inherited Puritanism" : the legacy of Calvinism in the fiction of William Dean Howells / Elsa Nettels -- The modernist conversion of Willa Cather's Professor / John J. Murphy -- Grace, good works, and the Hemingway ethic / George Monteiro -- Sites of struggle : Marianne Moore and American Calvinism / Jeredith Merrin -- Awe, wonder, and wit : Elizabeth Bishop and the modernization of Calvinist mood / Elisa New -- Puritan legacies of masculinity : John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet / Ivy Schweitzer -- Mastering the master : Emily Dickinson's appropriation of crisis conversion / Aliki Barnstone -- Calvinist tortures in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome / Carol J. …”

Table of Contents: “…Wells -- Arnold Bennett -- The dean -- Professor Veblen -- The new poetry movement -- The heir of Mark Twain -- Hermann Sudermann -- George Ade -- The Butte Bashkirtseff -- Six members of the Institute : The Boudoir Balzac ; A stranger on Parnassus ; A merchant of mush ; The last of the Victorians ; A bad novelist ; A Broadway Brandes -- The genealogy of etiquette -- The American Magazine -- The Ulster Polonius -- The unheeded law-giver -- The blushful mystery : Sex hygiene ; Art and sex ; A loss to romance ; Sex on the stage -- George Jean Nathan -- Portrait of an immortal soul -- Jack London -- Among the avatars -- Three American immortals : Aristotelean obsequies ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Memorial service. …”

Table of Contents: “…From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800) / Sir William Herschel -- From Past and Present (1843) / Thomas Carayle -- From Outlines of Astronomy (1849) / Sir John Herschell -- From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852) / Michael Faraday -- On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin -- On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869) -- On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870) / John Tyndall -- From Theory of Heat (1871) -- To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874) -- Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877) -- Answer to Tait -- To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878) / James Clerk Maxwell -- The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin -- From Two on a Tower (1882) / Thomas Hardy -- The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883) / Richard A. …”