Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Copley and Edwards: Self, Consciousness, and Thing. 2. Emerson and Lane: Luminist Time and the Transcendental Aboriginal Self. 3. Thoreau and Indian Selfhood: Circles, Silence, and Democratic Land. 4. Whitman and Church: Transcendent Optimism and the Democratic Self. 5. Homer and James: The Pragmatic Self Made Concrete. 6. Dickinson and Ryder: Immortality, Eternity, and the Reclusive Self. 7. Pollock and Olson: Time, Space, and the Activated Bodily Self. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Illustration Credits. Index