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General introduction | |
Inventing the American Novel: Introduction | |
Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel | |
Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US | |
Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early Republic | |
The novel in the antebellum book market | |
American land, American landscape, American novels | |
Cooper and the idea of the Indian | |
The nineteenth-century historical novel | |
Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance | |
Melville and the novel of the sea | |
Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel | |
Manhood in the early American novel | |
Sentimentalism | |
Supernatural novels | |
Imagining the South | |
Stowe, race and the antebellum American novel | |
The early African American novel | |
Realism, Protest, Accommodation: Introduction | |
Realism and radicalism: the school of Howells | |
James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal | |
Theories of the American novel in the age of realism | |
The novel in postbellum print culture | |
Twain, class, and the Gilded Age | |
Dreiser and the city | |
Novels of civic protest | |
Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism | |
New Americans and the immigrant novel | |
Cather and the regional imagination | |
Wharton, marriage, and the new woman | |
The postbellum racial novel | |
The African American novel after Reconstruction | |
Literary Darwinism and the rise of naturalism | |
Imagining the frontier | |
Imperialism, orientalism, and Empire | |
The Hemispheric novel in the post-Revolutionary era | |
The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism | |
Dime novels and the rise of mass market genres | |
Readers and reading groups | |
Modernism and Beyond: Introduction | |
Hemingway, Stein, and American modernisms | |
The Great Gatsby and the 1920s | |
Philosophy and the American novel | |
Steinbeck and the proletarian novel | |
The novel, mass culture, mass media | |
Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel | |
Ellison and Baldwin: aesthetics, activism, and the social order | |
Religion and the twentieth-century American novel | |
Faulkner and the Southern novel | |
Law and the American novel | |
Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback | |
The novel of crime, mystery, and suspense | |
US novels and US wars | |
Science fiction | |
Female genre fiction in the twentieth century | |
Children's novels | |
The American novel and the rise of the suburbs | |
The Jewish great American novel | |
The Beats and the 1960s | |
Literary feminisms | |
Reimagining genders and sexualities | |
Contemporary Formations: Introduction | |
Postmodern novels | |
The nonfiction novel | |
Disability and the American novel | |
Model minorities and the minority model - the neoliberal novel | |
The American Borderlands novel | |
The rise of the Asian American novel | |
Toni Morrison and the post-Civil Rights African American novel | |
Hemispheric American novels | |
The worlding of the American novel | |
The Native American tradition | |
Eco-novels | |
Graphic novels | |
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities | |
A history of the future of narrative | |
A selected bibliography | |
Index | |
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