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Preface
General editor's preface
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5
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Table of Contents
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9
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Preface
Introduction
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11
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Article
Real toads and imaginary gardens : Freud and Davidson on meaning and metaphor
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23
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Article
"Natural Arabesques" : James Fenimore Cooper's republican ideal on the Léman
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37
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Article
Thoreau's flowering of facts and the truth of experience
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51
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Article
Williams and Moore : Wasps, a Gentian and Real Toads
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67
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Article
Portraits of women in early 20th-century American photography
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79
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Article
Photography by native Americans : creation and revision
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107
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Article
Real Marilyns
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129
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Article
The war spangled banner : Vietnam and the fabrication of American national identity
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143
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Article
Constructing new "Realities" : the performative function of maps in contemporary fiction
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159
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Article
American exceptionalism and multiculturalism : myths and realities
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177
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Article
United we stand : the constructed realities of 9/11
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189
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Article
Nine-eleven-two-thousand-and-one : the morning after and the melancholy streets of Manhattan
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203
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Rubric
Notes on contributors
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219
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Index
Index of names
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223
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