Dwelling in the Text
  Acknowledgments

  Introduction
  1—  Walden:  A Manifesto in Wood and Stone
  2—  "The Fall of the House of Usher":  And Who Can Tell the Teller from the Tale?
  3—  The House of the Seven Gables:  Secrets of the Heart
  4—  The Portrait of a Lady:  More Stately Mansions
  5—  The Awakening and "The Yellow Wallpaper":  Ironies of Independence
  6—  The Age of Innocence:  Tribal Rites in the Urban Village
  7—  The Professor's House:  Escape to the Interior
  8—  The Great Gatsby:  Awakening from the American Dream
  9—  Absalom, Absalom!:  A House Divided
  10—  Postwar Suburban Fiction:  American Dream as Nightmare
  11—  Housekeeping and Beloved:  When Women Come Home

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