Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ghost Writer: The Canonization of Benvenuto Cellini -- 2 Legends of Labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Voice of Craft -- 3 The Nature of Gothic: Artisanship, Intuition, and the Representation of Expertise -- 4 In the American Grain: Gustav Stickley and the Artisanal Type -- 5 The Syntax of the Eye: Author, Artisan, and the ''More Laboring Ages'' in Henry James's The Spoils of Poynton -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.