The mark and the knowledge: social stigma in classic American fiction

(print) 179 p. ; 24 cmAcknowledgments vii -- 1 The Transcendental Imagination : The Mark as Focus 1 -- 2 The Scarlet Letter : Social Stigma and Art 15 -- 3 Moby-Dick : Social Physics and Metaphysics 49 -- 4 Faulkner's "Dry September" and "Red Leaves" : Caste and Outcast 92 -- 5 Light in August : Violence and Excommunity 108 -- 6 Invisible Man : The World in a Man-of-War 143 -- Postscript 168 -- Index 17