Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: revisionism, presentism, and historicism
  • Twentieth-century bearings: romance, counter-romance, and anti-romance
  • Modern inventions and genealogy of romance
  • Romance protocols in American magazine culture
  • Rebuilding the House of the Seven Gables
  • New phases of romance: realism and naturalism
  • Coming to terms: toward a new traditionalism
  • Conclusion: the neutral ground.