. "In his introduction Eagleton writes on ???the usefulness of stereotypes???, which Americans dislike because, in the words of Mr Wentworth in Henry James???s The Europeans, ???we are all princes here.??? It???s the first in Eagleton???s litany of paradoxes about Americans: ???Quite how everyone can be special without nobody being so is a problem we can leave to the logicians.??? So it???s hard to g" . . .