Contents
| Preface | Page ix | ||
| List of abbreviations | xvii | ||
| 1 Introduction: frontier instances | 1 | ||
| 2 In Jonathan Edwards’s room of the idea | 24 | ||
| 3 Emerson’s moving pictures | 62 | ||
| 4 William James’s feeling of if | 98 | ||
| 5 Henry James’s more than rational distortion | 137 | ||
| 6 Wallace Stevens’s radiant and productive atmosphere | 179 | ||
| 7 Gertrude Stein, James’s Melancthon/a | 232 | ||
| Notes | 253 | ||
| Bibliography | 303 | ||
| Index | 316 |


