| Front matter | _ | 
            
              | Table of Contents | _ | 
            
              | Preface: General editor's preface | _ | 
            
              | Article: Introduction | 11 | 
            
              | Article: "We should be seeing life itself" : Wittgenstein on the aesthetics and ethics of representing selfhood | 23 | 
            
              | Article: Real paper beings? : On the projection of interiority in American literary realism | 41 | 
            
              | Article: Lowell's Dolphin : shame, guilt, and the fate of confessional poetry | 59 | 
            
              | Article: The aesthetics of poetic self-representation : Henry James's What Maisie Knew | 73 | 
            
              | Article: Freedom, psychoanalysis, and the radical political imaginary | 87 | 
            
              | Article: Coping with frontier society instead of building the city upon a hill : a novel philosophy of justice and its interest in literature | 101 | 
            
              | Article: Literature, recognition, ethics : struggles for recognition and the search for ethical principles | 119 | 
            
              | Article: Ethics, interrupted : community and impersonality in Levinas | 143 | 
            
              | Article: Form, reform, refomulation : William Dean Howells's Annie Kilburn | 159 | 
            
              | Article: The moral of landscape : John Ruskin and John Muir in the Swiss Alps | 175 | 
            
              | Article: From a poetics of collision to a hermeneutics of discovery : rethinking knowledge, ecology, and history in Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers | 195 | 
            
              | Article: Sonophilia / Sonophobia : sonic others in the poetry of Edward Sapir | 215 | 
            
              | Rubric: Notes on contributors | 231 | 
            
              | Index: Index of names | 235 | 
            
              | Back matter | 239 |