Women, compulsion, modernity: the moment of American naturalism

Introduction : the "feminization" of American naturalism

The compulsion to describe : naturalist subjects, naturalist history

The great indoors : regionalism, feminism, and obsessional domesticity

A mania for the moment : fadmongering and feminism in Henry James

The new woman & the old man : sentimentality and "drift" in Dreiser and Wharton

Saving herself : gender, preservation, and futurity in McTeague

The rhythm method : unmothering the race in Chopin, Stein, and Grimké.