Introduction Chapter One Romance as Literary Experiments 1 The Other-Directed Tradition of American High Romance:Cooper,Poe,Hawthorne and Melville 2 The Other-Directed Tradition of Popular Romance:Litery Japonisme of Loti,Hearn and Long 3 Eaton's Reconfigurations of Romance: A Bidirectional Perspective Chapter One Romance as Literary Experiments on Culture and Society 1 The Turn-of-the-Century Cultural and Social Contexts:Anthropological and Sociological Discourses 2 Romance as Cultural Experiments:Eaton's Contestations against Biologically Informed Interpretations Culture 3 Ronance as Social Experiments:Eaton's Contestations against Biologically Informed Interpretalions of Society ...... Conclusion Selected Bibliography