The Genius of Democracy : Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Work of Genius -- Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself ": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work -- Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians -- Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius -- Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation -- Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion -- Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France -- 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 -- Y -- Acknowledgments.