Boats against the Current: American Culture between Revolution and Modernity, 1820-1860

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents xi
• PROLOGUE 3
• PART ONE Nashville 11
• Chapter One - Contrasts 13
• Chapter Two - a New Way of Life 21
• Chapter Three - the Hero and His Roles 25
• Chapter Four - a Vagabond's Vision of Civilization 39
• PART TWO The Dead Past 45
• Chapter Five - Looking for Connections 47
• Chapter Six - Choosing a Past 55
• Chapter Seven - Holding on to History 63
• Chapter Eight Anti-History 71
• PART THREE Travelers 79
• Chapter Nine Ruins and Stumps 81
• Chapter Ten Tocqueville: Wilderness and Civilization 89
• Chapter Eleven Bremer: Home and Citizenship 105
• Chapter Twelve the Opening of the American Mind 125
• Chapter Thirteen Ambiguous Argonaut 141
• PART FOUR Life as a Masquerade 153
• Chapter Fourteen City of Unwork 155
• Chapter Fifteen Excursion 161
• Chapter Sixteen Specimens of Equivoke 167
• Chapter Seventeen on the Road 173
• Chapter Eighteen Confidence and Sincerity 189
• Chapter Nineteen Emerson on the World of Shows 199
• PART FIVE Modernity 213
• Chapter Twenty Against the Current 215
• Chapter Twenty-One a Step Toward Modernity 227
• Chapter Twenty-Two the Experience of Change 243
• EPILOGUE Retelling the Story 265
• Notes 271
• Index 323

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