Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Notes on Sources; Prologue; i.i 'A Core About Which / Not a Box Inside Which Every Item': Little Magazines and the Modernist Transatlantic; i.ii Locational Poetics and Geographical Materialism; i.iii 'The Locality is the Only Universal': Distinguishing Localist Modernism; i.iv The Advance Guard Magazine; i.v Conclusion; Chapter 1: Contra Mundum: Others and the Transatlantic Village; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A New Washington Square: The Greenwich Village Nexus and the 'Marketplace-to-be', 1913-16; 1.
3 American Free Verse: Ridgefield's Magazines, Imagist Print Cultures, and the Ascent of Others; 1.4 Love Songs and Rogue Traders: Others, Rogue, and Transatlantic New York; 1.5 'Native by Influence If Not by Species': Others and American (Market) Places; 1.6 The 'Competitive Number' and the Limits of 'Otherness'; 1.7 Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Vortex of the Page: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis and the Modernist Problem of Place; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound's Journey from Image to Vortex; 2.3 The Other's Vortex: William Carlos Williams's Transatlantic Backgrounds; 2.
4 'The Crowd Master': Blast and Wyndham Lewis's Urban Spaces; 2.5 Conclusion: Transatlantic Vorticism; Chapter 3: 'Backgrounds and Extensions': The Ascent of Localist Modernism; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 'Literary Americanism': The Seven Arts and the New Regionalism; 3.3 Local Alternatives: The Soil and the 'End' of Others; 3.4 The Afterlives of Others; 3.5 The Edges of America: Localist Poetics in Contact; 3.6 'The Impact of Experience'; 3.
7 Conclusion: 'Broken By the Contact'; Chapter 4: Location, Location, Location: America, Relativity, and 'the New Science of Advertising'; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Hook, Line, and Sinker: '25ยข = Advertising Number'; 4.3 'Don't Imagine That I Think Economics Interesting': Ezra Pound and the Actual World; 4.4 'St. Francis Einstein' in the 'Sweet Land of Liberty'; 4.5 'Jazz Opera Americano': American Identity Abroad; 4.6 Conclusion: 'But if it Ends/The Start is Begun'; Chapter 5: Secessions and Symposia: American Identity and Transatlantic Colour Lines in Modernist Magazines; 5.
1 Introduction; 5.2 Closed Circuits and Missed Contacts: American Identities in Secession; 5.3 'Declension from Unanimity': S4N and Unanimisme; 5.4 The New Negro Renaissance and the 'Crucible' of Harlem; 5.5 Railroaded: The Spatial Poetics of Fire!!; 5.6 Conclusion; Chapter 6: New Localism, Late Modernism, and America's Unfinished Spaces; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Localist and Dadaist Legacies, 1924 to 1928; 6.
3 The Atlantic Canon: the transatlantic review and The Exile; 6.4 Blues and the Margins of Modernity; 6.5 The Voyage to Pagany and the Rebirth of Localism; 6.6 'Hand to Mouth, Eye to Brain Existence': A Return to Contact; Epilogue.