Index
A
Adams, Henry, 11 , 100 , 306 n10;
Democracy , 11 , 100 , 324 n50, 327 n19;
related to Hay, 11 , 100
Adorno, Theodor, 344 -45n17
affirmative action, 6 , 162 , 229 , 332 -33n32
Age of Contract, 1 , 19 , 35 , 92 , 96
agency, 18 ;
corporate, 23 , 235 , 255 -56, 262 , 271 , 275 , 280 , 304 n52, 324 n48;
liberal, 23 , 270 -71;
mechanical, 144 , 228 -29, 252 , 261 -62, 275 -77, 279 -81, 282 , 285 -86, 323 n35, 344 n14;
naturalist, 18 , 275 , 323 n33, 344 n13;
promising and, 18 , 23 , 287 ;
realists' notion of, x , 17 -18, 23 , 120 , 121 , 270 -88;
republican, 11 , 120 , 270 -71;
as translation, 121 , 276 -77, 279 -82, 285
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 9 -10, 169 ;
"Spring in New England," 169 ;
The Stillwater Tragedy , 320 -21n42;
The Story of a Bad Boy , 9 -10
Althusser, Louis, 130 , 321 n13
Andrews, Stephen, 75
Andrews, William L., 159 , 162
Arac, Jonathan, 344 n15
Arendt, Hannah, 18 , 23 , 271 -75, 279 -80, 284 -85, 287 , 288 , 291 , 294 -96, 346 -47n39;
"The Crisis in Education," 294
Aristotle, 26 , 28 , 37 , 130 , 139 , 215 , 312 n68, 312 n75;
The Poetics , 172
Armstrong, Nancy, 14
Atiyah, P. S., 35 , 270
Atkinson, Edward, 169
The Atlantic Monthly , 72 , 169
Auerbach, Erich, 9 , 11 , 116 , 301 n24, 302 n36
B
Bailey v. Alabama (1911), 176 , 177 , 328 -29n32
Balzac, Honoré de, 145 , 302 n36
Banta, Martha, 342 n46, 344 n14
Barthes, Roland, 14 , 138
Bartle v. Home Owners Cooperative (1955), 239
Bayard, Mabel, 56 -57
Bayard, Senator Thomas Francis, Sr., 56 -57
Beard, Charles A., 243 , 321 n12, 339 n9
Beard, Mary, 339 n9
Becker, George J., 11
Bell, Michael Davitt, 302 n36, 323 n26, 335 n58
Bellamy, Edward, 150 ;
Looking Backward , 341 n38
Benjamin, Walter, 12
Bercovitch, Sacvan, 307 n20, 318 n10
Bersani, Leo, 138
Beveridge, Albert J., 243
Birnbaum, Michele A., 346 n29
"Black Codes," 175 , 237
Blackstone, Sir William, 27 , 35 ;
Commentaries on the Laws of England , 33 , 63
Blair Bill, 334 n44
Blumenberg, Hans, 284 , 311 n62, 322 n15;
concepts of reality, 301 -2n29
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 103 , 233
Boone, Joseph Allen, 347 n41
boundary thought, 16 , 22 , 46 , 50 , 127 -30, 147 -48, 154 , 181 , 194 , 221 , 308 n34;
described, 37 -38, 128
Bradley, Justice Joseph P., 42 -43, 193
Bradwell, Myra, 42 , 310 n46
Bradwell v. State (1873), 42 , 43 , 44 , 50
Brandeis, Justice Louis, 48 , 56 -57, 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 64 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 83 , 85 , 86 , 102 , 243 , 263 -64, 265 , 292 , 310 n46, 313 -14n14
Braude, Ann, 93
Brewer, Justice David Josiah, 177
Briden, Earl F., 202
Brinton, Daniel G., 203 , 204
Brodhead, Richard H., 325 n4
Bromage v. Genning (1616), 310 -11n58
Brooks, Van Wyck, 14
Brown, Justice Henry Billings, 43 -44, 193 -94, 221 , 308 n34, 331 n15
Brown, Sterling, 198 , 326 n8
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 229 -30
Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress , 240
C
Cable, George Washington, 51 , 192 , 198 , 329 n34, 336 n63;
"The Freedman's Case in Equity," 19 , 51 , 161 , 170 , 181 , 212 ;
John March: Southerner , 215
Cady, Edwin H., 303 n44, 305 n8
Carey, Henry, 180
carpetbaggers, 219 , 223
Carter, Everett, 124 , 303 n44, 321 n6
Carton, Evan, 200 , 208 , 228
Cather, Willa, 346 n31
Cavell, Stanley, 30
Century Magazine , 19 , 51 , 98 , 170 , 198 , 212 , 215
Chametzky, Jules, 289 , 292
Chase, Richard, 11 , 12 , 275
Chesnutt, Charles W., 17 , 20 , 44 , 172 -73, 177 -79, 189 -90, 288 , 294 , 326 n8, 326 n11, 326 n12, 334 n41, 334 n48;
"The Averted Strike," 178 -79;
boundary thought and, 181 ;
The Colonel's Dream , 17 , 173 -74, 175 , 178 , 181 , 184 -88, 189 , 325 -26n4, 327 n22, 329 n44, 330 n48;
"The Courts and the Negro," 188 , 189 ;
didacticism of, 160 -61, 172 -73, 183 , 186 , 190 ;
"The Disenfranchisement of the Negro," 329 n45;
"The Dumb Witness," 184 , 329 n44;
economics of, 17 , 44 , 165 , 182 , 183 , 184 , 173 -81, 186 -88;
Harper, Frances E. W., and, 20 , 171 ;
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and, 184 ;
The House Behind the Cedars , 17 , 20 , 158 -73, 183 , 187 , 198 , 325 -26n4, 330 n48;
inheritance and, 185 -86, 294 ;
journalism and, 189 ;
The Marrow of Tradition , 160 , 174 , 325 n4, 330 n48;
related to Hay, John, 182 -83;
related to Howells, 17 , 158 -62, 164 -69, 171 , 182 , 183 , 198 , 285 ;
related to James, 165 , 170 , 198 ;
related to Phelps, E. S., 173 ;
related to Tourgée, 186 -87, 198 , 210 , 215 , 334 n41;
"Rena Walden," 198 ;
republicanism of, 160 -62, 172 -73, 182 -83, 285 ;
Scott, Walter, and, 158 , 182 ;
sentiment and, 159 , 162 -63, 166 -68, 177 , 182 ;
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and, 182 ;
"The Web of Circumstances," 171 ;
"What Is a White Man?," 330 n50;
"Women's Rights," 327 -28n22
Chinese, 219 , 293 -94;
anti-Chinese measures, 236 -39, 241 , 293 ;
Burlingame Treaty (1868), 137 ;
Harlan on, 334 n65;
Tourgée on, 219 , 336 n65;
Twain on, 336 n65;
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), 293 -94, 334 n65;
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Choate, Rufus, 189
Chopin, Kate, 288 , 294 ;
The Awakening , 10 , 18 , 288 -95, 299 n8, 324 n50, 346 n29;
Flaubert and, 290 -91;
illusion of autonomous freedom, 289 , 292 ;
inheritance and, 294 ;
possessive individualism and, 289 -90, 192 ;
privacy and, 292 ;
reader and, 289 , 292 ;
realism of, 10 , 288
Christian principles, 93 , 116 , 118 , 119 -20, 121 ;
leveling effect, 116 -17
civil society, 23 -24, 43
Clemens, John Marshall, 333 n39
Clemens, Samuel. See Twain, Mark
Cleveland, Grover, 192 , 320 -21n42, 332 n26
Coke, Sir Edward, 310 -11n58
Collins, Charles Wallace, 311 n60, 339 n10
color blindness, 194 , 207 , 332 n31, 332 -33n32
Complicity, 15 , 146 -47, 149 ;
realism and, 2 , 14 , 218
consideration, 1 , 33 ;
Holmes on,. 45 -46;
Mansfield on, 33 , 307 n22
Constitution: 1st Amendment, 48 ;
4th Amendment, 235 ;
5th Amendment, 235 ;
13th Amendment, 38 , 175 , 176 , 192 , 193 , 194 , 196 , 310 n41, 311 n60;
14th Amendment, 15 -16, 19 , 38 -42, 44 , 60 , 175 , 192 , 193 , 194 , 235 , 237 , 293 -94, 310 n41, 311 n60;
15th Amendment, 41 , 192 , 194 ;
17th Amendment, 267 ;
conspiracy theory of, 339 n9
contract, x , xi , 1 -24, 25 -52, 53 -87, 231 -69, 270 -97, 307 n21, 316 n40, 346 n35;
aleatory, 21 , 296 ;
defined, 1 ;
failed promise of, 2 , 4 , 5 , 6 -7, 10 , 15 -16, 19 , 22 , 23 , 38 -51, 162 , 179 , 242 , 268 , 297 ;
federal, 171 ;
freedom of, 32 , 39 , 40 , 44 , 47 , 63 , 93 , 96 , 175 -78, 237 ;
Holmes on, 44 -49, 331 n10, 337 n67;
ideological use of, 5 , 56 , 70 , 89 , 118 , 132 , 154 , 174 , 235 , 289 ;
limited liability vs. limited reliability, 296 ;
link to promising, 2 -5, 15 , 30 -35, 45 , 49 , 287 ;
Mansfield on, 33 ;
marriage, 6 , 16 , 27 , 50 , 63 -66, 68 , 71 , 73 , 84 , 86 -87, 88 , 132 , 134 -35, 164 , 174 , 315 n29, 315 n34, 315 n35;
with reader, x , xi -xii, 8 -9, 13 , 20 , 21 -22, 78 , 84 , 286 -87, 296 -97, 300 n21, 347 n41;
slavery and, 40 -41, 175 -78, 310 -11n58, 328 n27, 328 n30;
social, 1 -3, 15 , 29 -31, 33 -35, 88 , 92 , 233 -34, 238 , 306 n15, 308 n34;
status and, 2 , 3 -4, 7 , 19 , 29 , 31 , 37 -38, 49 -50, 63 , 128 , 165 , 240 , 255 .
See also Age of Contract; consideration; divorce; "promise of contract"
"Contract with America," 6 , 300 n16
Cooley, Justice Thomas M., 63 -64;
Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union , 63 ;
A Treatise on the Law of Torts, or the Wrongs Which Arise Independently of Contract , 45
Cooper, James Fenimore, 97 ;
The Chain-bearer , 97
Cooper, Julia, 325 n3
corporate liberalism, 4 , 23 , 238 , 242 -43, 266 , 269 , 271 , 300 n12, 339 -40n15, 341 n39
corporations, 231 -69, 314 n26, 324 n48, 339 n9;
as fictional legal persons, 5 , 232 , 234 -39;
linked to feudalism, 241 -43, 255 , 264 , 342 n42;
partnerships vs., 89 -90, 150 , 232 ;
"piercing the corporate veil," 239 -41, 245 , 250 , 253 ;
rise of, 4 , 17 , 152 , 235 , 269 , 340 n21;
"rule of reason," 48 , 265 , 311 -12n67
critical legal studies: legal realism vs., 324 n43
Crocker, Charles, 239
Crooley, Horten, 339 n4
Cummings, Sherwood, 206 , 332 n28
D
Darstellung , 13 , 229 , 303 n43
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), 234
Darwin, Charles, 203 , 206
Delbanco, Andrew, 149
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell, 241
Dewey, John, 58 -59, 308 n34
Dimock, Wai-chee, 123 , 125 , 126 , 131 -32, 346 n29
divorce, 19 , 63 , 132 -36, 322 n21, 322 n22;
Howells on, 26 , 27 , 132 -36, 215 ;
Phelps on, 115. See also contract, marriage
Dixon, Thomas: The Clansman , 327 n19
Douglas, Justice William O., 56 , 62 -63
Dreiser, Theodore, 11 ;
Sister Carrie , 11 , 138 , 323 n35
Du Bois, W. E. B., 194 -95, 201 , 282 -83, 325 n3;
The Souls of Black Folk , 282
Durkheim, Émile, 29 , 32 -33, 38 , 306 -7n19, 307 n21
Dworkin, Andrea, 59
Dworkin, Ronald, 337 n72
E
Eaton, Winnfried (Ondo Watana): A Japanese Nightingale , 327 -28n22
economy of pain. See Howells, William Dean
Eliot, Charles W., 150
Eliot, T. S., 83
Ellison, Ralph, 346 -47n39
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 221 , 307 n20
equity, 15 , 24 , 26 -27, 29 , 33 , 34 , 35 -37, 47 -49, 51 , 71 , 161 -62, 164 , 176 , 187 , 188 -89, 192 , 212 -13, 239 , 249 , 285 n75, 305 n8, 307 n27, 312 n68, 334 n43;
defined, 26 -27, 37 , 213 , 303 n8, 312 n75
F
Federal Trade Commission, 265
Ferguson, John Howard, 191 -92. See Plessy v. Ferguson
Fetterly, Judith, 113 , 319 n33;
The Resisting Reader , 113
Field, Justice Stephen Johnson, 98 , 318 n15
Fish, Stanley, 337 n72
Fisher, Philip, 14 , 61 -62
Fiss, Owen, 2 , 299 n1, 308 n34, 337 n72
Flaubert, Gustave, 153 , 302 n36;
Madame Bovary , 104 , 153 , 290
Fluck, Winfried, 9 , 303 n43
Fogel, Robert William: Without Consent or Contract , 22
Foner, Eric, 39
Forbath, William, 4
Ford, Paul Leicester: The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him , 320 -21n42
formalism: legal, 15 -16, 40 , 44 -45, 257 ;
literary, x , 16 , 20 , 149
Foucault, Michel, 14 , 129 , 303 n47, 303 n49
Fox, Margaret, 94
Fried, Charles, 6 ;
Contract as Promise , 6
Friedman, Lawrence, 37 -38, 46 , 287
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 41 , 310 n42
G
Garfield, James A., 100
Garland, Hamlin, 199
Gayle v. Browder (1956), 229
Ghent, W. J., 255
Gierke, Otto von, 232 -35, 241 , 338 -39n3
Gilder, Richard Watson, 219 , 336 n64
Giles v. Harris (1903), 188
Gilmore, Grant, 46 , 307 n22
Godkin, E. L., 57 , 60 -61, 62 , 63 , 76 , 219 , 314 n26, 316 n54;
Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy , 51
Grady, Henry W., 19 , 169 -71, 181 , 190 , 192 -93, 212 ;
"In Plain Black and White," 190 ;
"The New South," 169 , 327 n17
Grantham, Dewey, 264
Green, Nicholas St. John, 147 , 148
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), 62
Gross, Theodore L., 198
Grotius, Hugo, 26 , 36 , 305 n8
H
Habegger, Alfred, 75 , 82
Habermas, Jürgen, 226 , 326 n12, 344 -45n17
Hale v. Henkel (1905), 235
handshake, 30 , 32 -33, 54 -55, 68 -69, 70 , 71 -73, 79 , 105 -6, 110 -12, 169 , 206
Harlan, Justice John Marshall, 39 , 42 , 194 , 207 , 229 , 265 , 310 n41, 311 -12n67, 332 -33n32, 336 n65
Harper, Francis E. W., 157 , 171 ;
Iola Leroy , 20 , 157
Harper, Phillip Brian, 319 -20n33
Harris, Susan, 89 , 110 , 112
Hartman, Geoffrey, 316 n40
Hartz, Louis, 92 , 309 n39
Harvard Law Review , 56
Haskell, Thomas, 31 -32, 33 , 35 , 147 -48, 220 , 306 n18, 323 -24n41
Hawkes v. Saunders (1782), 307 n22
Hawthorne, Julian, 76 -77
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 69 , 70 , 75 , 76 -77;
The House of the Seven Gables , 184 ;
"Peter Goldwaithe's Treasure," 184 ;
The Scarlet Letter , 69
Hay, John: Adams, Henry, and, 11 , 100 ;
The Bread-Winners , 11 , 16 , 88 -89, 91 -110, 116 , 117 , 118 , 183 , 210 , 250 , 261 , 319 n29, 324 n50, 341 n35;
"The Foster Brothers," 182 -83, 210 , 329 n42;
privatization of virtue and, 99 , 250 ;
related to Chesnutt, 182 -83;
related to Howells, 16 , 35 , 98 , 105 , 109 , 120 -21;
related to James, 16 , 88 -89, 92 -94, 102 , 105 -6,
108 -110, 120 -21;
related to Lyncle, 261 ;
related to Phelps, 16 , 88 -89, 91 , 93 , 110 , 116 -19;
related to Phillips, 250 , 261 , 341 n35;
related to Tourgée, 210 ;
related to Twain, 227 ;
republicanism and liberalism of, 11 , 16 , 92 , 93 -104, 118 -20, 182 -83, 210 , 250
Hayes, Rutherford B., 330 -31n5
Hearst, William Randolph, 253
Hegel, G. W. F., 130 , 137 , 152
Heidegger, Martin, 130 -31
Hobbes, Thomas, 30 , 33 , 47 , 95
Hodges v. United States (1906), 177
Hoffman, Frederick, 203 -4
Hoffman, Justice, 237 -39
Hofstadter, Richard, 4 , 240 , 263 -64
Holland, Laurence B., 113 , 120
Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell, Jr., 39 , 42 , 44 -49, 50 , 51 , 153 , 188 -89, 220 , 221 -22, 286 -87, 307 n22, 310 n50, 310 n51, 310 -11n58, 312 n68, 312 n75, 338 -39n3, 345 n26;
as antifoundationalist, 44 -49;
boundary thought and, 45 , 336 -37n67;
The Common Law , 51 , 306 n10;
formalization of contract, 45 -49, 51 , 286 -87, 328 -29n32;
literary realists vs., 45 , 220 , 287 ;
Lochner dissent, 39 , 42 , 44 -49, 221 , 311 n66, 311 n67;
pragmatism and, 44 , 220 , 221 , 336 -37n67;
promising and, 45 -49, 286 -87
Hopkins, Mark, 239
Horwitz, Howard, 309 n39, 324 n48
Horwitz, Morton J., 48 -49, 307 n27, 339 n9
Hovenkamp, Herbert, 40 , 93
Howard, June, 341 n29
Howells, William Dean, 4 , 9 , 23 , 25 -30, 35 , 49 , 51 , 98 , 122 -71, 182 , 183 , 199 , 215 , 218 , 299 n9, 301 n24, 302 n36, 304 n52, 306 n10, 319 n29, 334 -35n39, 335 n58, 343 n10;
boundary thought and, 16 , 127 -31, 136 , 147 , 154 ;
corporations and, 150 -52, 239 ;
economy of pain, 125 -26, 128 , 131 -33, 135 , 145 , 159 , 160 , 165 , 322 n25;
Harper, Frances E. W., and, 157 ;
A Hazard of New Fortunes , 35 , 121 , 126 -27, 160 , 168 -69, 170 -71, 275 -79, 285 , 321 n43, 323 n36, 326 -27n13;
An Imperative Duty , 17 , 156 -58, 159 , 161 , 166 , 168 , 170 -71, 198 , 199 , 326 n8;
journalism and, 25 , 28 -29;
"The Letters of Olney," 199 ;
The Minister's Charge , 145 -47, 151 ;
A Modern Instance , 25 -26, 27 -30, 33 , 35 , 49 , 124 , 133 , 161 , 215 , 260 , 277 , 304 n52, 305 n8;
privacy and, 283 ;
reader and, 125 , 132 , 142 , 144 , 152 -55, 156 , 158 , 277 ;
related to Chesnutt, 17 , 158 -62, 164 -69, 171 , 182 , 183 , 198 , 285 ;
related to Hay, 16 , 35 , 98 , 105 , 109 , 120 -21;
related to James, 10 , 12 , 16 , 35 , 51 , 94 , 120 -21, 133 , 135 , 170 , 215 , 239 , 283 -86, 334 -35n49;
related to Lynde, 18 , 260 ;
related to Phelps, 16 , 120 -21, 146 ;
related to Phillips, 18 ;
related to Tourgée, 198 -99, 208 , 215 -17, 218 , 278 ;
related to Twain, 10 , 12 , 35 , 94 , 199 , 208 , 215 , 239 , 278 , 283 -86, 334 -35n49;
republicanism and, 25 , 120 -21, 276 -77;
The Rise of Silas Lapham , 4 , 12 , 16 -17, 19 , 26 , 122 -155, 156 , 157 -58, 159 , 160 , 168 , 170 , 217 , 239 , 277 , 283 , 284 -85, 321 n6;
temporality and, 16 , 130 -31, 137 , 140 -42, 144 -45, 148 -49, 153 , 322 n15;
Their Wedding Journey , 218 , 335 n61;
translation and, 121 , 130 , 276 -79, 285 , 321 n43
Hughes, Justice Charles Evans, 177
Hume, David, 30 -32, 33 , 34 , 47 , 49 , 288
Huntington, Collis, 239
I
In re Tiburcio Parrott (1880), 236 -39, 339 n9
individualism, 32 , 58 -59, 93 -94, 119 , 150 , 220 , 233 , 236 , 241 , 306 -7n19, 307 n20;
economic, 88 , 92 , 93 ;
possessive, 39 , 85 , 94 , 289 -92, 304 n52, 346 n29
Innocent IV, Pope, 232 , 233 , 234
Insular Cases , 308 n34
Iser, Wolfgang, 303 n43
J
Jackson, Andrew, 103 , 318 n10
Jackson, Helen Hunt: A Century of Dishonor , 22 ;
Ramona , 217 , 330 n50, 335 n59
Jacobsohn, Gary J., 312 n68
James, Henry, xi , 9 , 13 , 14 , 16 , 50 -52, 53 -87, 88 , 120 , 170 , 273 , 280 , 286 , 301 n25, 304 n52, 312 n69, 312 n75, 315 n35, 316 n47, 316 -17n54, 334 -35n49, 344 -45n17, 345 n21;
The American , 5 -6, 35 , 300 n14;
The Aspern Papers , 16 , 53 -54, 72 -80, 81 , 88 , 284 ;
The Bostonians , 16 , 19 , 54 -55, 61 -62, 65 -72, 79 -87, 88 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 105 , 106 , 108 -10, 165 , 170 , 217 , 284 , 319 n29, 327 n18;
boundary thought and, 50 -51;
corporations and, 239 , 280 ;
curiosity and, 76 ;
Eliot, George, and, 51 ;
Eliot, T. S., and, 83 ;
The Golden Bowl , 280 -81, 344 n13, 344 n14;
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and, 69 -70, 75 , 76 -77;
journalism and, 58 , 67 , 75 ;
The Princess Casamassima , 4 , 14 ;
privacy and, 16 , 52 , 53 -87, 102 , 283 , 284 ;
"The Private Life," 80 ;
reader and, 78 , 80 -81, 83 -84, 86 , 286 , 347 n41;
related to Chesnutt, 165 , 170 , 198 ;
related to Hay, 16 , 88 -89, 92 -94, 102 , 105 -6, 108 -110, 120 -21;
related to Howells, 10 , 12 , 16 , 35 , 51 , 94 , 120 -21, 133 , 135 , 170 , 215 , 239 , 283 -86, 334 -35n49;
related to Lyncle, 18 , 261 ;
related to Phelps, 16 , 88 -89, 93 , 110 -11, 120 -21;
related to Phillips, 18 ;
related to Tourgée, 198 , 215 -17;
related to Twain, 5 , 9 -10, 12 , 35 , 94 , 215 , 239 , 280 -81, 283 -86, 334 -35n49;
The Reverberator , 58 , 67 , 76 , 78 , 81 , 313 n13, 313 -14n14
James, William, 220 , 316 n47
Jameson, Fredric, 9 , 300 n21
Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country of the Pointed Firs , 51
Jim Crow law, 44 , 48 , 60 , 190 , 192 , 194 , 195 , 222 , 224 , 238
Jonson, Ben: Volpone , 96
Joyce, James: Ulysses , 55
K
Kaplan, Amy, 17 , 301 n24
Kerr, Howard, 94
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 22
Koselleck, Reinhart, 144 , 322 n15
Ku Klux Klan, 51 , 191
Kull, Andrew, 332 -33n32
L
LaCapra, Dominick, 129
laissez-faire liberalism, 2 , 23 , 118 -19;
economy and, 39 -40, 41 , 42 , 127 -28, 132 , 150 , 154
Lang, Amy Schrager, 319 -20n33
Lears, T. Jackson, 342 n42
literary realism. See realism, literary (American)
literature of exposure, 240 -41, 253 , 258 , 265
Livingston, James, 18 , 304 n52
Lochner v. New, York (1905), 19 , 39 , 42 , 44 , 46 -47, 48 , 221 , 310 n46, 311 n59, 311 -12n67
Locke, John, 30 , 60 , 71 , 92 , 95 , 97 -98, 99 , 308 n34
Lowell, James Russell, 76
Lukàcs, George, 12 , 130 , 138 -391 216 , 302 n36
Lynde, Francis, 18 ;
The Grafters , 17 , 240 , 244 -46, 254 -64, 266 -69, 341 n39, 342 n41, 342 n42;
professionalism and, 243 , 258 -60, 263 -64, 266 -69;
related to Hay, 266 ;
related to Howells, 18 , 260 ;
related to James, 18 , 261 ;
related to Phillips, 17 , 18 , 140 -69;
vision of authorship, 268 -69
Lyotard, Jean-François, 13
M
Machiavelli, 272 -73, 284
Macpherson, C. B., 39 , 85 , 94 -95, 289 , 309 n39, 317 n60
Madison, James, 267 ;
The Federalist , 267
Mailloux, Steven, 211 -12
Maine, Sir Henry, 2 , 3 , 29 , 31 , 63 , 134 , 140 , 255 , 306 n10, 306 n15, 306 n18, 306 n20
Maitland, Frederick, 176 ;
Lectures on Equity , 176
Malthus, 289
Mansfield, Lord William Murray, 33 , 46 , 307 n22
marriage:
Chesnutt on, 17 , 158 -59, 163 -66, 172 , 174 , 183 , 185 -86, 188 ;
Hay on, 16 , 88 , 91 -92, 107 -8, 117 ;
Howells on, 17 , 27 , 132 -36, 140 -50, 156 -57, 166 , 168 -69, 171 ;
James on, 6 , 16 , 57 , 64 -68, 71 , 73 -74, 84 , 86 -87, 108 , 170 , 281 , 344 n14;
Lynde on, 260 -61;
Phelps on, 16 , 88 , 90 -91, 110 -12, 114 -15,
117 , 119 ;
Phillips on, 244 , 249 , 250 ;
Warren and Brandeis on, 62 , 64 .
See contract, marriage
Marshall, Justice John, 234
Marshall, Justice Thurgood, 206
Marx, Karl, 96 , 129 -30, 216
McKay, Janet Holmgren, 324 -25n52
McQuillan, Eugene, 98 -99
Mead, George Herbert, 344 -45n17
Melville, Herman, 12 , 193 ;
Billy Budd , 12 , 91 ;
The Confidence Man , 340 n20
Mendel, Gregor, 203
Merwin-Webster, Samuel: The Short Line War , 342 n41
Michaels, Walter Benn, 18 , 137 -40, 142 -43, 144 , 235 , 275 , 302 n38, 304 n52, 309 n39, 314 n20, 323 n35, 324 n44, 341 n38
Mill, John Stuart, 119 , 176
Mills, C. Wright, 241 , 262 , 263
Mitchell, Lee Clark, 200
Monteiro, George, 319 n29
motherhood, 43 , 346 n35;
Chopin on, 291 -95;
Hay on, 108 ;
Howells on, 122 -23;
Twain on, 209 -10
Mrs. David Colton v. Leland Stanford, et al . (1882), 239
muckraking. See literature of exposure
Mugwumps, 332 n26;
privacy and, 58 , 59 , 61 -62, 85 , 220 ;
progressivism and, 220 ;
republicanism and, 192 , 219 -20
Muller v. Oregon (1908), 310 n46
N
The Nation , 57 , 58
naturalism, 7 , 10 , 11 , 18 , 138 -39, 171 , 216 , 275 , 304 n52, 323 n35, 335 n53, 341 n29, 344 n13
neo-Lamarckianism, 203 -5, 332 n28
New York World , 76
Newman, Ralph A., 47
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 31 ;
The Genealogy of Morals , 31
Noble, David, 264
Nochlin, Linda, 8
Norris, Frank, 302 n36;
The Octopus , 235
novel of passing, 159 -60, 165 , 167 , 168 , 172 , 182 , 195 -96, 198 -99, 201 , 207 -8, 210 , 212 . See also Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars ; Harper, Iola Leroy ; Hay, "The Foster Brothers"; Howells, An Imperative Duty ; Tourgée, Pactolus Prime ; Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
novel of purpose, 215 , 217 , 278 , 343 n10
Nussbaum, Martha, 153
O
O'Connor, Justice Sandra Day, 23
Olin, Spencer, 342 n50
Olmstead v. United States (1928), 313 -14n14
Ortega y Gasset, José, 302 n36
P
Page, Thomas Nelson, 11 , 218 , 337 -38n74
Parker, Herschel, 207
Parrington, Vernon, 88 -89, 92 , 98
Pateman, Carole, 293 , 316 n70
paternalism, 9 -10, 27 , 47 , 78 , 149 , 176 , 177 , 189 , 257 , 268 , 305 n8, 311 n60, 328 n29, 329 n34
Pease, Donald, 126 , 150
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 220 -22, 223 , 226
peonage, 175 -76
Petrey, Sandy, 11
Peyser, Thomas Galt, 124 , 347 n41
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart: class difference in, 91 , 112 -13, 116 -20, 319 -20n33;
The Gates Ajar , 114 , 117 , 143 ;
related to Chesnutt, 173 ;
related to Hay, 16 , 88 -89, 91 , 93 , 110 , 116 -19;
related to Howells, 116 , 120 -21, 146 ;
related to James, 16 , 88 -89, 93 , 110 -11, 120 -21;
related to Tourgée, 217 ;
related to Twain, 228 ;
The Silent Partner , 16 , 88 -91, 93 , 110 -20, 146 , 173 , 319 -20n33, 327 n22;
The Story of Avis , 299 n8;
translation and, 113 -19;
"Why Shall They Do It?," 114
Phillips, David Graham, 18 ;
The Cost , 17 , 240 , 242 , 243 -244, 245 -54, 257 -59, 264 , 266 -69, 341 n35, 342 n41;
privatization of virtue, 249 -50;
related to Hay, 150 , 261 , 341 n135;
related to Howells, 18 ;
related to James, 18 ;
related to Lynde, 17 , 18 , 240 -69;
related to Tourgée, 242 ;
The Treason of the Senate , 240 , 241 , 242 253, 267 ;
vision of authorship, 268 -69.
See also politics of character
Phillips, Wendell, 332 -33n32
Pizer, Donald, 125 , 126
Plato, 36 , 249 , 273 ;
The Republic , 249
Plessner, Helmuth, 282
Plessy, Homer, 7 , 17 , 43 , 60 , 190 , 191 -94, 235 , 238
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 17 , 19 , 39 , 41 , 43 -44, 48 , 60 , 189 , 192 -96, 199 , 202 , 206 , 207 , 213 , 218 , 221 -22, 223 , 225 , 229 , 235 , 238 , 295 , 311 -12n67, 312 n68, 326 n10, 330 n48, 336 n65, 337 n72
Pocock, J. G. A., 39 -40, 92 , 96 , 100 , 273 , 309 n39
Polanyi, Karl, 4
politics of character, 17 , 243 , 245 -46, 251 -54;
defined, 243 , 246 ;
laissez-faire principles vs., 249 -50;
republican civic virtue vs., 249 -50
Pollock, Sir Frederick, 306 n15
Porte, Joel, 324 -25n52
Posner, Judge Richard, 59 , 305 n8, 314 n19
Posnock, Ross, 9 , 76 , 316 n47, 344 -45n-17, 347 n41
Post, Robert, 61
Poulet, Georges, 286 , 301 n25
Pound, Roscoe, 22 , 45 , 56 , 312 n68
pragmatism, 147 , 226 , 302 n38, 316 n47, 334 -35n17, 344 -45n17;
corporations and, 304 n52;
Holmes and, 336 -37n67;
professionalism and, 220 -22, 337 n72;
realism and, 303 n44
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), 310 n42
principles and conviction: Howells on, 160 , 278
principles and prejudice: Chesnutt on, 160 , 164 , 190
privacy: and art, 72 -87, 316 -17n54;
common law (tort), 56 , 58 , 59 -60, 235 , 313 n6;
constitutional, 56 ;
Dewey on, 58 -59.
See also right of privacy; right to privacy
professionalism, 218 -24, 228 -30, 243 , 266
progressivism, 17 , 19 , 264 , 340 n26;
corporations and, 241 , 242 -43, 263 -69;
Mugwumps and, 219 -20;
professionalism and, 220 -24;
race and, 328 n29;
republicans and, 220 -21, 242
"promise of contract," xi , 1 -7, 8 , 10 -11, 14 -15, 16 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 23 -24, 29 , 33 -34, 37 , 47 , 48 , 88 , 89 , 93 , 179 , 238 , 240 , 250 , 264 , 268 , 271 , 293 ;
defined, 2 -3, 30 -31;
equity and, 3 , 5 , 15 ;
evoked in literary realism, 5 -6, 15 , 21 -22, 38 , 45 , 88 , 242 , 275 , 297 , 334 -35n49;
ideological use of, 5 , 6
promising, 3 , 5 , 287 -88, 306 n10;
Arendt on, 18 , 274 -75, 287 -88, 294 , 296 ;
Cavell on, 30 ;
Holmes on, 45 -49, 286 -87;
Hume on, 30 -31, 34 , 47 , 49 , 288
Pufendorf, Samuel, 26 , 36
Putnam, Hilary, 13
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow , 340 n20
R
Raffles v. Wichelhaus (1864), 46
realism, legal, 147 , 220 , 337 n73;
critical legal studies vs., 324 n43;
literary realism and, 38 , 45
realism, literary (American), ix -xii, 1 -2, 5 -8, 15 , 22 , 270 , 296 -97, 304 n52;
defined, 7 -10, 19 ;
horizontal ordering of, 8 -13, 15 ;
police academy approach to, 14 -15, 130 , 303 n47, 303 n49, 322 n14;
"promise of contract" and, 5 -6, 8 , 11 , 15 , 16 , 20 , 21 , 38 , 88 , 270 ;
reality concept and, 7 -8, 301 -2n29;
temporality of, 16 , 157 ;
theatricality and, 13 , 227 ;
Tourgeée on, 7 , 198 -99, 215 -118, 275 , 278 , 335 n58
realism, philosophical, 13
Reconstruction, 161 , 168 , 170 -71, 175 , 178 , 181 , 192 , 212 , 219 , 317 n61
Regents of The University of California v. Bakke (1978), 229 , 332 -33n32
republicanism: civic, 4 ;
fiction of republican virtue, 11 , 16 , 17 , 182 , 210 , 214 , 217 , 250 , 285 ;
liberalism vs., 39 -40, 92 -93, 95 -96, 100 , 249 , 250 , 270 -71, 308 -9n39, 318 n10;
Mugwumps and, 192 , 219 -20;
progressivism and, 220 -21, 242
right of privacy, 55 , 61 , 62
right to privacy, 9 , 16 , 59 -61, 77 , 80 , 86 , 102 , 292 , 314 n19;
domestic circle and, 62 -64, 73 -74;
Mugwump origins, 56 -63, 85 , 220
Robbins, Bruce, 303 n41
Roberts v. City of Boston (1849), 193 , 214 , 331 n7
Roe, E. P., 217 , 228 ;
Barriers Burned Away , 143 , 217 , 323 n34
Roe v. Wade (1973), 56
Rogat, Yosal, 286
Rogin, Michael, 12
romance, 11 -12, 123 , 183 , 185 , 245 , 302 n36
Roosevelt, Theodore, 93 , 240 , 265
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 30 , 102 -3, 104 , 273 , 287 , 319 n27
Rowe, John Carlos, 225
Royce, Josiah, 235
Ruffin, Judge Thomas, 161
Russell, C. W., 175 ;
Report on Peonage , 175 -176
Russell, Charles Edward, 261
S
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886), 235 , 339 n9
Saturday Evening Gazette , 57
Scharnhorst, Gary, 76
Schmidt, Benno C., Jr., 328 -29n32
Schnog, Nancy, 117
Scott, Walter, 158 , 182 , 217
Scribner's Magazine , 57 , 58
segregation, 39 , 44 , 193 , 195 , 196 , 200 , 208 , 229
Seltzer, Mark, 14 , 275 , 300 n14
Sen, Amartya, 153
sentimental fiction, 10 -11, 12 , 50 , 125 , 138 , 139 , 142 -44, 146 , 159 , 182 , 208 , 214 , 216 -18, 242 , 244 , 248 , 254 , 290 , 302 n30, 323 n34, 323 n35, 335 n58, 336 n63
Shakespeare, William, 249 , 260 ;
The Merchant of Venice , 260 , 305 n8;
Othello , 60 ;
The Tempest , 202
Shaw, Judge Lemuel, 193 , 214
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, 265
Shi, David, 8
Sklar, Martin J., 238 , 265 , 266 , 267 , 300 n12, 339 -40n15, 342 n50
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), 318 n15
Smith, Adam, 36 -37, 93 , 98 , 318 n15;
Theory of Moral Sentiments , 32 , 208 ;
Wealth of Nations , 32 , 36
Soifer, Aviam, 311 n60, 333 n37
Spencer, Herbert, 32
spiritualism, 93 -94, 103 -6, 108 -9, 116 -17, 228 , 315 n34, 315 n39;
Hay on, 93 -94, 103 -5, 108 -9, 116 , 117 ;
James on, 82 , 93 -94, 108 ;
Phelps on, 114 , 117 -18;
Twain on, 228 , 338 n78
Stanford, Leland, 239
Stange, Margit, 289 , 290
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 289
State v. Mann (1829), 161
Story, Justice Joseph, 26 , 35 , 63 , 310 n42
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 76 , 161 , 182 , 208 , 210 , 211 ;
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp , 161 ;
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin , 161 ;
Uncle Tom's Cabin , 315 n32, 335 n59
strike (labor), 4 , 16 , 19 , 38 -42, 91 , 107 -8, 112 -14, 117 , 119 -21, 146 , 151 , 174 -79, 181 , 210 , 138 -39, 255 -56, 320 -21n42
Sumner, Charles, 41
Sumner, William Graham, 2 -4, 19 , 99 , 136
Sundquist, Eric, 325 -26n4, 329 n44, 338 n75
Susman, Warren, 243
T
Taft, William, 265
Tanner, Tony, 9 , 315 n29
Tanselle, G. Thomas, 123 , 131
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 264
Tennenhouse, Leonard, 14
Thomas, Brook: Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature , ix , 309 n39
Tiedeman, Christopher, 236 , 237 ;
A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Powers in the United States , 19 , 236
Tilton, Theodore, 332 -33n32
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 101
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 29
Tourgée Albion W., 7 , 17 , 41 , 60 , 175 , 186 -87, 189 , 191 -230, 242 , 275 , 278 , 289 -90, 303 n45, 315 n36, 332 -33n32, 334 -35n49, 342 -43n51;
An Appeal to Caesar , 205 , 332 n26;
Bricks Without Straw , 207 ;
consumer capitalism and, 289 -90;
corporations and, 242 ;
defense of Chinese, 219 , 336 n65;
A Fool's Errand By One of the Fools , 191 , 223 , 324 n50;
Tourgée, Albion W. (continued )
inheritance and, 204 ;
Jackson, Helen Hunt, and, 217 , 335 n59;
journalism and, 214 , 225 -26;
Murvale Eastman: Christian Socialist , 204 , 210 , 216 , 320 n42, 335 n58;
Pactolus Prime , 17 , 190 , 196 -202, 204 -5, 207 -8, 210 -16, 218 , 222 -26, 333 n33;
Page, Thomas Nelson, and, 218 ;
Plessy's attorney, 7 , 17 , 60 , 191 -96, 201 -2, 207 , 218 ;
professionalism and, 219 -23;
related to Chesnutt, 186 -87, 198 , 210 , 215 , 334 n41;
related to Hay, 210 ;
related to Howells, 198 -99, 208 , 215 -17, 218 , 278 ;
related to James, 198 , 215 -117;
related to Phelps, 217 ;
related to Phillips, 242 ;
related to Twain, 17 , 189 -90, 196 -230, 336 n65;
republicanism of, 210 , 214 , 217 -22, 225 -26, 241 , 189 ;
Roe, E. P., and, 217 ;
A Royal Gentleman and Zouri's Christmas , 201 ;
Scott, Walter, and, 271 ;
"The South as a Field for Fiction," 198 -99, 211 ;
spirituality and, 216 ;
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and, 210 -11, 335 n59;
With Gauge & Swallow, Attorneys , 315 n36, 334 n43
Trachtenberg, Alan, 4 , 302 n36
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 152 , 327 n20
Twain, Mark, 5 , 9 -10, 12 , 14 , 191 -230, 232 , 239 , 241 , 278 , 280 , 281 , 283 , 285 -86, 302 n36, 304 n52, 334 -35n49;
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , 5 , 9 -10, 12 , 19 , 45 , 208 -9, 211 -12, 281 , 344 n15;
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , 202 -3, 205 -6, 221 , 225 , 281 ;
corporations and, 231 -32, 239 , 241 , 340 n19;
inheritance and, 200 ;
Page, Thomas Nelson, and, 337 -38n74;
professionalism and, 219 -22;
Pudd'nhead Wilson , 17 , 35 , 190 , 196 -97, 199 -213, 222 -30, 231 , 285 -86, 333 n33, 337 n72, 337 -38n74;
racial Politics of, 199 -230;
reader and, 199 , 208 , 209 , 222 , 229 -30, 286 ;
related to Chesnutt, 17 ;
related to Hay, 227 ;
related to Howells, 10 , 12 , 35 , 94 , 199 , 208 , 215 , 239 , 278 , 283 -86, 334 -35n49;
related to James, 5 , 9 -10, 12 , 35 , 94 , 215 , 239 , 280 -81, 283 -86, 334 -35n49;
related to Lyncle, 18 ;
related to Phelps, 228 ;
related to Phillips, 18 ;
related to Tourgée, 17 , 189 -90, 196 -230, 217 , 336 n65;
Scott, Walter, and, 217 ;
"1601," 227 , 229 ;
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and, 208 -11, 333 n36;
the-atricality of, 226 -27;
Those Extraordinary Twins , 196 , 227 , 231 -32, 239 ;
"A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It," 227
U
uneven development, 128 , 321 n10
United States v. Reynolds (1914), 176 , 310 -11n58, 328 -29n32
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), 336 n65
V
Vanderbilt, Kermit, 241 , 325 n54
Vandersee, Charles, 318 n14
W
Wall Street, 240 ;
Phillips on, 243 , 251 -52, 253 ;
Tourgée on, 186 -87
Walzer, Michael, 23 -24
Warner, Susan, 117 ;
The Wide Wide World , 117
Warren, Justice Earl, 56 , 229
Warren, Kenneth, 215 , 327 n18, 334 -35n49
Warren, Samuel, 56 -58, 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 64 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 83 , 85 , 86 , 102 , 243 , 29
Washington, Booker T., 193 , 329 n45, 330 -31n5
Wharton, Edith, 9 , 20
Wharton, Francis, 42 ;
Commentaries on Law , 42
White, James Boyd, 326 n5
White, Morton, 45 , 148 , 310 n50, 336 -37n67
Whitman, Walt, 304 n52
Wiebe, Robert, 263 -64
Williams, Raymond, 182
Wilson, Christopher, 268
Wilson, Woodrow, 265 -67, 308 n34, 342 -43n51
Wister, Owen: The Virginian , 327 n19
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin, 289
Wood, Gordon, 92 , 99 -100
Woodhull, Victoria, 65 , 71 , 75 , 94 , 134 -35
Y
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), 331 n8
Z
Zunz, Olivier, 263 -64, 341 n39