Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Literary Criticism as an Everyday Practice -- Dos Passos' Modern Epic of Radical Modernism -- Rethinking the Dialectical Totality of History and Its Utopian Impulse -- Dialectics and Its Discontent -- Totality or Pure Multiplicity -- History: Teleological Progress vs Contingent Transformation -- Utopia as the Dialectical Image -- American Capitalism and John Dos Passos -- Capitalism: An Aspect -- American Exceptionalism and the Other Side of the Jazz Age -- The Other Narrative of the Lost Generation -- The World War and the Metropolis: Two Frontiers of American Capitalism -- and -- Bohemian Revolt against the Capitalist War Machine -- Metropolis as the Physiognomy of Modern Capitalism -- An Aesthetic Chronicle of American Capitalism -- The Trilogy of Impersonality, Objectivity, and Collectivity -- The Architect of History -- Chronicler or Historian: The Dialectical Image -- A Dialectical Chronicle of Capitalism -- Dialectical Politics of Literary Narrative -- The Image of Time as Dialectical Sublime -- Conclusion: Utopian Disillusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Rethinking the Dialectical Totality of History and Its Utopian Impulse -- Chapter 3. American Capitalism and John Dos Passos -- Chapter 4. The World War and the Metropolis: Two Frontiers of American Capitalism -- Chapter 5. -- An Aesthetic Chronicle -- of American Capitalism -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Utopian Disillusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.