Table of Contents:
  • Professionalism in Law and Literature
  • The (Mis)Rule of Law
  • The "Official" Narratives of William Dean Howells
  • Helen Hunt Jackson and the Romance of Indian Nationhood
  • Narrating Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins's "Contending Forces"
  • Charles Chesnutt's Fictions of Ownership
  • Privacy and Subjectivity in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
  • Theodore Dreiser's Progressive Nostalgia.