Historical Traditions and Genres
1. The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism
2. Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition
3. The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-1900
4. Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts
5. American Literary Naturalism
6. American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits
7. Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism
8. The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914
Part II. Contexts and Themes
9. Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing
10. "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History
11. Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance
12. Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus
13. Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914
14. Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives
15. Fiction's Many Cities
16. Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture
17. Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class
19. Darwin, Science, and Narrative
20. Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative
22. American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865-1914
23. An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott
24. America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain
25. William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion
26. Henry James in a New Century
27. Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton
28. Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane
29. Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal.
