Introduction
Chapter One Romance as Literary Experiments
1 The Other-Directed Tradition of American High Romance:Cooper,Poe,Hawthorne and Melville
2 The Other-Directed Tradition of Popular Romance:Litery Japonisme of Loti,Hearn and Long
3 Eaton's Reconfigurations of Romance: A Bidirectional Perspective
Chapter One Romance as Literary Experiments on Culture and Society
1 The Turn-of-the-Century Cultural and Social Contexts:Anthropological and Sociological Discourses
2 Romance as Cultural Experiments:Eaton's Contestations against Biologically Informed Interpretations Culture
3 Ronance as Social Experiments:Eaton's Contestations against Biologically Informed Interpretalions of Society
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Conclusion
Selected Bibliography