Introduction : Planet as duration and extension
1. Global civil society: Thoreau on three continents
2. World religions: Emerson, Hafiz, Christianity, Islam
3. The planetary dead: Margaret Fuller, ancient Egypt, Italian revolution
4. Genre as world systems: epic, novel, Henry James
5. Transnational beauty: aesthetics and treason, Kant and Pound
6. Nonstandard time: Robert Lowell, Latin translations, Vietnam war
7. African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole tongue
8. Ecology across the Pacific: coyote in Sanskrit, monkey in Chinese.