Ch. 1. Dickens: Tales of Several Cities -- Ch. 2. After Dickens: American Notes For General Circulation -- Ch. 3. City Spaces: Martin Chuzzlewit -- Ch. 4. Writing in Reaction: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope -- Ch. 5. James, Trauma, and America -- Ch. 6. The American Scene -- I: Building American Houses -- Ch. 7. The American Scene -- II: James and New York -- Ch. 8. The American Scene -- III: The Past and Future of American Cities -- Ch. 9. The States and the Statue: Kafka on America.
