The empty world of Wieland / J.V. Ridgely -- The limits of romance: a reading of The marble faun / Edgar A. Dryden -- Day-dream and fact: the import of The Blithedale romance / Roy Harvey Pearce -- "The begum of Bengal": Mark Twain and the South / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Hemingway's empirical imagination / Carlos Baker -- Faulkner's "country" as ideal community / Philip Momberger -- Sanctuary: Yoknapatawpha's waste land / James E. Miller, Jr. -- Djuna Barnes and surrealism: "backward grief" / James Baird -- The sacred, the profane, and The crying of Lot / Edward Mendelson