Introduction
Chapter One The Age of Innocence : Affect and Aesthetic Transcendence
I. Narcissism, Excess, and Aesthetic Education
II. Loss and Newland Archer's In-Between Stasis
III. Old New York and Its Immanence
IV. Summary
Chapter Two The Mother's Recompense: Repetition and Cognitive Transcendence
I. Returning to Home and Recompensing Herself
II. Shame and Existential Dilemma
III. Repetition and Emergence of Modem Subjectivity
IV. Summary
Chapter Three Hudson River Bracketed & The Gods Arrive: Exile and Cultural Transcendence
I. Escaping the "Main Street" Narrowness and Going to the East
II. Anxiety and Encounter with Expansive Otherness in Europe
III. Exile and the Vision of a Great Artist
IV. Summary
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgements