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Part I. Four Overviews: 1. Theoretical premises; 2. A narrativeoverview of New England's literary development; 3. Marketplace, ethos,practice: the Antebellum literary situation; 4. Neoclassicalcontinuities: the early national era and the New England literarytradition; Part II. Three Representative Genres: 5. New EnglandPoetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and others; 6. New England oratory fromEverett to Emerson; 7. Literary scripturism; Part III. ReinventingPuritanism: the New England Historical Imagination: 8. The concept ofpuritan ancestry; 9. The politics of historiography; 10. Fictionalizingpuritan history: some problems and approaches; 11. Hawthorne and Stoweas rival interpreters of New England Puritanism; Part IV. New Englandas a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place: 12. The culturallandscape in regional poetry and prose; 13. The village as icon; 14.Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau; 15. Comic grotesque; 16.Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others; Postscript;Appendix. Vital statistics: a quantitative analysis of authorship as aprofession in New England.