COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Righteous Violence -- CHAPTER ONE: Margaret Fuller's Revolutionary Example -- CHAPTER TWO: Emerson, Guns, and Bloodlust -- CHAPTER THREE: Douglass, Insurrection, and The Heroic Slave -- CHAPTER FOUR: Contemplation versus Violence in Thoreau's World -- CHAPTER FIVE: Violent Virtue and Alcott's Moods -- CHAPTER SIX: Pacifism, Savagery, and Hawthorne's Last Romances -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Revolutionary Times of Melville's Billy Budd -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.