Introduction
Beginnings to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Introduction
The Early American Novel
Autobiography and the Early Novel
The Book Marketplace I
The Romance
Romance and Race
Domesticity and Fiction
Fiction and Reform I
The Late Nineteenth Entury
Introduction
Realism
Fiction and the Science of Society
Fiction and Reform II
Nation, Region, and Empire
Gender and Fiction
Popular Forms I
The Early Twentieth Century
Introduction
Modernist Eruptions
American Proletarianism
Popular Forms II
Ethnicity and the Marketplace
Race and Region
Fiction of the West
Technology and the Novel
Society and Identity
The Late Twentieth Century
Introduction
Postmodern Culture
Postmodern Realism
Construction Gender
Canada in Fiction
Carbbean Fiction
Latin American Fiction
Colonialism, Imperialism, and Imagined Homes
The Book Marketplace II
Postmodern Fiction
The Avant-Garde
Biographies of American Authors
Selected Bibliography of Critical Works
Notes on Contributors
Index