LIst of Illustrations =vii
Timeline =viii
Acknowledgments =xxii
Introduction =1
1. Big =6
Expansion and its Discontents =12
The City =19
Representing Nature =36
Apocalypse =43
The Sense of Place =48
2. Rich =60
Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend =66
USA =71
Work and Identity =79
Labor Reform =91
Consumption and Identity =99
3. New =110
Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthrone =115
Young America =119
Making It New 1: Literary Modernism =128
Making It New 2: The Other Arts =149
4. Free =165
The Multiple Meanings of Freedom =170
War and the Affirmation of American Values =173
Writing War =180
Upstream Against the Mainstream =187
"An Inescapable Network of Mutuality" =203
Notes =211
Websites for Further Study of american LIterature and Culture =215
Bibliography =217
Index =231
Timeline =viii
Acknowledgments =xxii
Introduction =1
1. Big =6
Expansion and its Discontents =12
The City =19
Representing Nature =36
Apocalypse =43
The Sense of Place =48
2. Rich =60
Weber and Veblen: Reasons to Work and Reasons to Spend =66
USA =71
Work and Identity =79
Labor Reform =91
Consumption and Identity =99
3. New =110
Beginning Anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthrone =115
Young America =119
Making It New 1: Literary Modernism =128
Making It New 2: The Other Arts =149
4. Free =165
The Multiple Meanings of Freedom =170
War and the Affirmation of American Values =173
Writing War =180
Upstream Against the Mainstream =187
"An Inescapable Network of Mutuality" =203
Notes =211
Websites for Further Study of american LIterature and Culture =215
Bibliography =217
Index =231