Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett -- 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? Susan Manning -- 2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman -- 3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England Anne-Marie Ford -- 4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. Ellis -- 5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide Bridget Bennett -- 6 Poet of comrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Carolyn Masel -- 7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley -- 8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot Lindsey Traub -- 9 'If I Were a Man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann -- 10 'Embattled tendencies':Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism Katherine Joslin -- 11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Barnes's Nightwood Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik -- 12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead Kate Fullbrook -- Index.