Susan Stewart is Professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of On Longing, also published by Duke University Press.
1. Crimes of Writing 3
2. Psalmanazar's Others 31
3. Notes on Distressed Genres 66
4. Scandals of the Ballad 102
5. The Birth of Authenticity in the Progress of Anxiety: Fragments of an Eighteenth-Century Daydream 132
6. Exogamous Relations: Travel Writing, the Incest Prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation 173
7. Ceci Tuera Cela: Graffiti as Crime and Art 206
8. The Marquis de Meese 235
9. Coda: Reverse Trompe l'Oeil\The Eruption of the Real 273
Works Cited 291
Index 311
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