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Volume 1 William Hill Brown, 'Preface' The Power of Sympathy (1789);Susanna Haswell Rowson, 'Preface' Charlotte: A Tale of Truth (1791); CharlesBrockden Brown: 'Advertisement' Wieland (1798); 'To the Public' Edgar Huntly(1799); 'The Difference Between History and Romance' Monthly Magazine (1800);'Novel Reading' Literary Magazine (1804); Carolina Matilda Warren, 'Preface'The Gamesters; or, Ruins of Innocence (1805); Charles Brockden Brown, 'On theCause of the Popularity of Novels' Literary Magazine (1807); Edward TyrellChanning: 'American Language and Literature' North American Review (1815);'Reflections on the Literary Delinquency of America' North American Review(1815); 'Brown's Life and Writings' North American Review (1819); James KirkePaulding, 'National Literature' Salmagundi (1820); W H Gardiner, 'The Spy'North American Review (1822); James McHenry, 'Preface' The Spectre of theForest (1823); W H Gardiner, 'The Wilderness' North American Review (1824);William Cullen Bryant, 'Redwood' North American Review (1825); WilliamGilmore Simms, '[American Fiction]' Southern Quarterly Gazette (1828); IsaacAppleton Jewett, 'Themes for Western Fiction' Western Monthly Magazine(1833); Daniel Drake, Discourse on the West (1834); James Ewell Heath,'Southern Literature' Southern Literary Messenger (1834); H J Groesbeck,'American Literature: Its Impediments' Southern Literary Messenger (1835);James Mercer Garnett, 'Abuses of Literature' Southern Literary Messenger(1837); Anon 'Biographical Sketch of James Fenimore Cooper' Southern LiteraryMessenger (1838); B 'Literature of Virginia' Southern Literary Messenger(1838); George Tucker, 'A Discourse on American Literature' Southern LiteraryMessenger (1838); Orestes Brownson, 'American Literature' (1839); A VirginianGentleman 'Confessions of a Novel Reader' Southern Literary Messenger (1839);Anon 'The Inferiority of American Literature' Southern Literary Messenger(1840); Edwin De Leon, 'Modern Fiction' Southern Literary Messenger (1842);Edgar Allan Poe, 'Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales' (1842); William GilmoreSimms, 'Cooper, His Genius and Writings' Magnolia (1842); Edwin De Leon,'Cheap Literature' Southern Literary Messenger (1844); A Friend toLiterature, 'A Native Literature' Southern Literary Messenger (1844); E A D,'Literary Prospects for 1845' American Whig Review (1845); William CowperScott, 'American Literature: The Present State of American Letters; TheProspect and Means of Their Improvement' Southern Literary Messenger (1845);Il Secretario, 'American Letters--Their Character and Advancement' AmericanWhig Review (1845); William Gilmore Simms, 'Americanism in Literature: AnOration Before the Phi Kappa and Desmothean Societies of the University ofGeorgia, at Athens, August 8, 1844. By Alexander B Meek, of Alabama.Charleston: Burges & James. 1844' Southern and Western Magazine (1845);Cornelius Matthews, 'National Literature' United States Magazine (1847); Anon'Charles Brockden Brown' American Whig Review (1848); Philip Pendleton Cooke,'Edgar A Poe: His Literary Merits Considered' Southern Literary Messenger(1848); James Russell Lowell, 'Kavanagh' North American Review (1849); JohnReuben Thompson, 'The Late Edgar Allen Poe' Southern Literary Messenger(1849); Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'Hawthorne and His Mosses' Literary World (1850)Volume 2 Anon: 'The Evening Book; or, Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners,With Sketches of Western Life. Mrs Kirkland' American Whig Review (1851);'The Moral and the Artistic in Prose Fiction' American Whig Review (1851);'Nathaniel Hawthorne' International Magazine (1851); W D, 'Imagination andFact' American Whig Review (1851); H T Tuckerman, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne'Southern Literary Messenger (1851); Anon: 'Anglo-American Literature andManners' International Magazine (1852); 'The Blithedale Romance' AmericanWhig Review (1852); 'Pierre, or the Ambiguities' American Whig Review (1852);P 'William Gilmore Simms, LLD' International Magazine (1852); GeorgeFrederick Holmes, 'A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin' Southern Literary Messenger(1853); William Gilmore Simms: 'Preface' The Yemassee (1853); Anon:'Novels--Their Meaning and Mission' Putnam's Monthly Magazine (1854); 'AnInquiry into the Present State of Southern Literature' Southern LiteraryMessenger (1856); 'A Perceptible Falling Off of 'Sensation Books'--What IsLikely to Take Their Place?' Putnam's Monthly Magazine (1856); George WCurtis, 'Portrait of Sir Walter Scott' Southern Literary Messenger (1856);William Gilmore Simms, 'Preface' Richard Hurdis (1856); A W R 'The Duty ofSouthern Authors' Southern Literary Messenger (1856); Anon: 'Ideals in ModernFiction' Putnam's Monthly Magazine (1857); 'Southern Literature' Putnam'sMonthly Magazine (1857); John S Hart, Extract from The Female Prose Writersof America (1857); Ignatius 'Matter of Fact and Matter of Fiction' Harper'sNew Monthly Magazine (1857); Anon 'James Fenimore Cooper' North AmericanReview (1859); Henry Theodore Tuckerman, 'Balzac' Southern Literary Messenger(1859); James Russell Lowell, 'The Marble Faun' Atlantic Monthly (1860); E PWhipple, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne' Atlantic Monthly (1860); G S Hillard, 'JamesFenimore Cooper' Atlantic Monthly (1862); Samuel B Davies, 'Observations ofOur Literary Prospects' Southern Literary Messenger (1863); Orestes Brownson,'American Literature' Brownson's Quarterly Review (1864); Samuel D Davies,'Novels and Novel Writing' Southern Literary Messenger (1864); Oliver WendellHolmes, 'Hawthorne' Atlantic Monthly (1864); Henry James, 'The Novels ofGeorge Eliot' Atlantic Monthly (1866); Eugene Benson: 'American Literature'Nation (1868); 'Poe and Hawthorne' Galaxy (1868); J W De Forest, 'The GreatAmerican Novel' Nation (1868); E P Peabody, 'The Genius of Hawthorne'Atlantic Monthly (1868); T W Higginson, 'Americanism in Literature' AtlanticMonthly (1870); Henry Ware, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne' Appleton's Journal (1870);Thomas Sergeant Perry, 'American Novels' North American Review (1872); R HStoddard, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne' Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1872); G LFerris, 'Mark Twain' Appleton's Journal (1874); G P Lathrop: 'Growth of theNovel' Atlantic Monthly (1874); 'The Novel and Its Future' Atlantic Monthly(1874); Thomas Sergeant Perry, 'Ivan Turgenieff' Atlantic Monthly (1874)Volume 3 Edward L Burlingame, 'New American Novels' North American Review(1877); Anon 'Have We a Novelist?' Catholic World (1878); Lafcadio Hearn:'Bret Harte and the Critics' Item (1878); 'Decline of the Atlantic' Item(1878); Clara Barnes Martin, 'Emile Zola As Critic' Atlantic Monthly (1879);H W P, 'Recent American Novels' Atlantic Monthly (1879); Lafcadio Hearn: 'TheValue of Novels' Item (1879); 'Southern Novels' Item (1879); C H Jones,'Sectional Fiction' Appleton's Journal (1880); Thomas Sergeant Perry, 'SirWalter Scott' Atlantic Monthly (1880); 'Some Recent Novels' Atlantic Monthly(1880); 'Zola's Last Novel' Atlantic Monthly (1880); Edmund Clarence Stedman,'Edgar Allan Poe' Scribner's Monthly (1880); Lafcadio Hearn: 'Death ofAmerican Literature' Item (1880); 'A Southern Magazine' Item (1881); Anon:'Bret Harte's Collected Works' Century (1882); 'Mark Twain's 'The Prince andthe Pauper'' Century (1882); 'Miss Woolson's Anne' Century (1882); 'ThePortrait of a Lady and Dr Breen's Practice' Atlantic Monthly (1882); L MBedinger, 'Mothers in American Novels' Century (1882); W D Howells, 'MarkTwain' Century (1882); Thomas Sergeant Perry, 'William Dean Howells' Century(1882); Albion W Tourgee, 'Preface' Hot Ploughshares (1882); Lafcadio Hearn:'A Romantic Conundrum' Times-Democrat (1882); 'Judge McGloin's New Book'Times-Democrat (1882); 'Realistic Fiction' Times-Democrat (1882); 'Novelistsand Novels' Times-Democrat (1882); H C Bunner, 'New York As a Field forFiction' Century (1883); T B Dorsey, 'Two Southern Novelists' Century (1883);James Herbert Morse: 'The Native Element in American Fiction' Century (1883);'The Native Element in American Fiction Since the War' Century (1883); H E S,'Recent American Fiction' Atlantic Monthly (1883); Charles Dudley Warner:'American Novels' Quarterly Review (1883); 'Modern Fiction' Atlantic Monthly(1883); Lafcadio Hearn, 'Southern Literature' Times-Democrat (1883); 'A NovelNovel' Times-Democrat (1883); 'Southern Literature and "Observer"'Times-Democrat (1883); 'Mark Twain on the Mississippi' Times-Democrat (1883);'Magazine Mysteries' Times-Democrat (1883); 'Latterday Reviews'Times-Democrat (1883); William Henry Bishop, 'New York As a Field forFiction' Century (1884); A J Faust, 'Two New Novelists' Catholic World(1884); Julian Hawthorne, 'The American Element in Fiction' North AmericanReview (1884); G P Lathrop, 'Recent American Fiction' Atlantic Monthly(1884); Lafcadio Hearn: 'Dime-Novel Wickedness' Times-Democrat (1884); 'TheValley of Unrest' Times-Democrat (1884); 'Authors and Success' Times-Democrat(1884); 'Mr Cable's 'Dr. Sevier' Times-Democrat (1884); R P, 'Novel-Writingas a Science' Catholic World (1885); Thomas Sergeant Perry, 'Mark Twain'sHuckleberry Finn' Century (1885); Hjalmar Boyesen, 'Why We Have No GreatNovelists' Forum (1886); Julian Hawthorne, 'Hawthorne's Philosophy' Century(1886); 'Problems of the Scarlet Letter' Atlantic Monthly (1886); LafcadioHearn: 'Talent and Genius' Times-Democrat (1886); 'Sins of Genius'Times-Democrat (1886); 'Books and Reviews' Times-Democrat (1886); 'PicturesVs. Texts' Times-Democrat (1886); 'Eternal Literature' Times-Democrat (1886);'Journalism and Magazine Work' Times-Democrat (1887); 'One of Mr Howells'sRealisms' Times-Democrat (1887); 'The Questioning of Genius' Times-Democrat(1887); 'The Spiritual Sense in Literature' Times-Democrat (1887); 'Howellson Critics' Times-Democrat (1887); G E Woodberry, 'Charles Brockden Brown'Atlantic Monthly (1888); Henry A Beers, 'American Literature' Century (1889);Brander Matthews, 'The Centenary of James Fenimore Cooper' Century (1889);Joshua W Caldwell, 'Our Unclean Fiction' New England Magazine (1890); HelenGray Cone, 'Woman in American Literature' Century (1890); Hamlin Garland:'Howells Latest Novels' New England Magazine (1890); Charles Dudley Warner,'The Novel and the Common School' Atlantic Monthly (1890); M W Hazeltine,'Married Women in Fiction' North American Review (1891); Josephine Lazarus,'Louisa May Alcott' Century (1891); Brander Matthews, 'American Fiction'Cosmopolitan (1891); Anon 'American Fiction' Nation (1892); H H Boyesen, 'TheProgressive Realism of American Fiction' Independent (1892); Richard Hovey,'American Fiction' Independent (1892); Hamlin Garland, 'The Local Novel'Crumbling Idols: Twelve Essays on Art Dealing Chiefly With Literature,Painting, and the Drama (1894); 'Productive Conditions of AmericanLiterature' Forum (1894); 'Provincialism' Crumbling Idols...(1894); MarkTwain, 'What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us' North American Review (1895); JosephH Twichell, 'Mark Twain' Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1896); James LaneAllen, 'Two Principles in Recent American Fiction' Atlantic Monthly (1897);Paul Leicester Ford, 'The American Historical Novel' Atlantic Monthly (1897);Frank Norris, 'American Fiction' Wave (1897); Charles Miner Thompson, 'MarkTwain As an Interpreter of American Character' Atlantic Monthly (1897);George Clarke, 'The Novel-Reading Habit' Arena (1898); Charles Johnston, 'TheTrue American Spirit in Literature' Atlantic Monthly (1899); Annie StegerWinston, 'America As a Field for Fiction' Arena (1900)