Ch. 1. Introduction: Diversity, Democracy, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination -- Pt. 1. Splintering Worlds. Ch. 2. Fragmentation in American Social and Intellectual Life -- Pt. 2. The Manyness of Things. Ch. 3. Shooting the Gulf: Emerson's Sense of Experience. Ch. 4. Multiplicity and Uncertainty in Melville's Moby-Dick -- Pt. 3. Isolatos. Ch. 5. Personalism and Fragmentation in Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-1860). Ch. 6. Disconnection and Reconnection in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson -- Pt. 4. Conclusions. Ch. 7. Notes on Method; with Some Thoughts on the Diversitarian Spirit and Democracy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-248) and index