Chapter 1 Seductive Fiction
1. Overview
2. Susanna Haswell Rowson:Charlotte Temple
3. Hannah Webster Foster:The Coquette;or, The History of Eliza Wharton
Chapter 2 Gothic Fiction
1. Overview
2. Charles Brockden Brown:Wieland;or The Transformation
3. Issac Mitchell:The Asylum;or Alonzo and Melissa
Chapter 3 Historical Romance
1. Overview
2. Lydia Maria Child:Hobomok :A Tale of Early Times
3. Catherine Maria Sedgwick:Hope Leslie
4. Joseph Holt Ingraham:Laffitte :The Pirate of Gulf
5. Robert Montgomery Bird:Nick of the Woods
Chapter 4 Classic Detective Fiction
1. Overview
2. Edgar Allan Poe:The Murders in the Rue Morgue
3. Anna Katherine Green:Leavenworth Case
Chapter 5 Western Adventure
1. Overview
2. Bennett Emerson:The Bandits of Osage
3. Bennett Emerson:Kate Clarendon
Chapter 6 Women's Fiction
1. Overview
2. Susan Bogert Warner:Wide, Wide World
3. E. D. E. N. Southworth:The Hidden Hand
4. August Jane Evans:St. Elmo
Chapter 7 City Expos6 Fiction
1. Overview
2. George Lippard:The Quaker City
3. George Thompson:Venus in Boston
Chapter 8 Dime Western
1. Overview
2. Edward Sylvester Ellis:The Lost Trail
3. Edward Carroll Judson:Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road
4. Prentiss Ingraham:Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
Chapter 9 Religious Fiction
1. Overview
2. Lew Wallace:Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ
3. Charles Monroe Sheldon:In His Steps
4. Harold Bell Wright:That Printer of Udell's
Chapter 10 Molasses Fiction
1. Overview
2. Alice Hegan Rice:Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
3. Kate Douglas Wiggin:Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
4. Eleanor Hodgeman Porter:Pollyanna, the Glad Girl
Chapter 11 New Historical Romance
1. Overview
2. Mary Johnston:To Have and to Hold
3. George Barr McCutcheon= Graustark
Chapter 12 Supernatural Horror Fiction
1. Overview
2. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
3. Robert William Chambers:The King in Yellow
Select Bibliography