Todd McGowan is Assistant Professor of English at Southwest Texas State University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Canon Wars and Psychoanalysis

1 The Canonical Unconscious

2 Dispossessing the Self: "The Yellow Wall-paper" and the Renunciation of Property

3 The Awakening of Desire, or, Why Edna Pontellier Isn't a Man

4 Acting without the Father: Charles Chesnutt's New Aristocrat

5 Liberation and Domination: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Evolution of Capitalism

6 Agency and the Traumatic Encounter: Politics after Poststructuralism

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