An Essay in the History of the Radical Sensibility in America: Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman

Abstract

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Early American Certainties -- Chapter Two Ready for the Complexities -- Chapter Three Poe: Politics and Nature's Perversities -- Chapter Four Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Politics of Compassion -- Chapter Five Herman Melville: The Politics of Pride -- Chapter Six Walt Whitman: His Braveries -- Chapter Seven Politics' Vicissitudes -- Chapter Eight Reductions and Disillusions: Some Hard Times for the Left -- Chapter Nine The Exuberant Radicalism of the 1960s -- Chapter Ten Technology and Democracy -- Afterword.