List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Impure Solitude: Walden, or Life in the Network
Chapter 2. The Solitary Woman in the Garret: Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter 3. Solitude in the Postal Age and Beyond: Melville’s Dead Letters
Chapter 4. “Alone, I Cannot Be –”: Dickinson’s Invention of Modern Solitude
Chapter 5. The Solitude Electric: Techno-Utopianism in Telegraphic Literature
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index