Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking for Dvořák in December 1992 MICHAEL BECKERMAN -- PART I ESSAYS -- Reversing the Critical Tradition: Innovation, Modernity, and Ideology in the Work and Career of Antonín Dvořák LEON BOTSTEIN -- Dvořák and Brahms: A Chronicle, an InterpretationD AVID BEVERIDGF. -- Dvořák and the New World: A Concentrated Moment JOSEPH HOROWITZ -- Dvořák: The Operas JAN SMACZNY -- The Master's Little Joke: Antonín Dvořák and the Maskof Nation MICHAEL BECKERMAN -- PART II DOCUMENTS AND CRITICISM -- Reviews and Criticism from Dvořák's American Years: Articles by Henry Krehbiel, James Huneker, H. L. Mencken, and James Creelman -- Letters from Dvořák's American Period: A Selection of Unpublished Correspondence Received by Dvořák in the United States -- Antonín Dvřák: A Biographical Sketch HERMANN KRIGAR TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLEPIE WITH CRITICAL COMMENARY BY JARMIL BURHAUSER -- Dvořák in the Czech Press: Unpublished Reviews and Criticism TRANSLATED BY TATIANA FIRKUŠNÝ -- A Discussion of Two Tone Poems Based on lexis by KarelJaromir Erben: The Wood Dove and The Golden Spinning Wheel LEOŠ JANÁČEK TRANSLATED BY TATIANA FIRKUŠNÝ -- Index of Names and Compositions -- List of Contributors.