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List of Illustrations.Notes onContributors.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Shirley Samuels (University ofConnecticut).Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts.1. National Narrativeand the Problem of American Nationhood: Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana StateUniversity).2. Fiction and Democracy: Paul Downes (University of Toronto).3.Democratic Fictions: Sandra M. Gustafson (University of Notre Dame).4.Engendering American Fictions: Martha J. Cutter (Kent State University) andCaroline F. Levander (Rice University).5. Race and Ethnicity: Robert S.Levine (University of Maryland).6. Class: Philip Gould (Brown University).7.Sexualities: Valerie Rohy (University of Vermont).8. Religion: Paul Gutjahr(Indiana University).9. Education and Polemic: Stephanie Foote (University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign).10. Marriage and Contract: Naomi Morgenstern(University of Toronto).11. Transatlantic Ventures: Wil Verhoeven (Universityof Groningen) and Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick).12. OtherLanguages, Other Americas: Kirsten Silva Gruesz (University of California,Santa Cruz).Part II: Forms of Fiction.13. Literary Histories: Ed White(Louisiana State University) and Michael Drexler (Bucknell University).14.Reading and Breeding: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic:Christopher Lukasik (Boston University).15. The American Gothic: MarianneNoble (American University).16. Sensational Fiction: Shelley Streeby(University of California, San Diego).17. Melodrama and American Fiction:Lori Merish (Georgetown University).18. Delicate Boundaries: Passing andOther "Crossings" in Fictionalized Slave Narratives: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson(University of Wisconsin-Madison).19. Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction: StephanieBrowner (Berea College).20. Law and the American Novel: Laura Korobkin(Boston University).21. Labor and Fiction: Cindy Weinstein (Caltech).22.Words for Children: Carol Singley (Rutgers University).23. Dime Novels: ColinRamsey (Appalachian State University) and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola(University of Arkansas).24. Reform and Antebellum Fiction: Chris Castiglia(Loyola University).Part III: Authors, Locations, Purposes.25. The Problem ofthe City: Heather Roberts (Clark University).26. New Landscapes: TimothySweet (West Virginia University).27. The Gothic Meets Sensation: CharlesBrockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth:Dana Luciano (Georgetown University).28. Retold Legends: Washington Irving,James Kirke Paulding, John Pendleton Kennedy: Philip Barnard (University ofKansas).29. Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet PrescottSpofford, and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle": Eric Gary Anderson(George Mason University).30. New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick,Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land: Bethany Schneider (BrynMawr College).31. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville,and American Racialist Exceptionalism: Katherine Adams (University ofTulsa).32. Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery: NancyBuffington (University of Delaware).33. The West: Edward Watts (MichiganState University).34. The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus BaldwinLongstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris: David Rachels(Virginia Military Institute).35. James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention ofthe American Novel: Wayne Franklin (University of Connecticut).36. The Sea:Herman Melville and Moby Dick: Stephanie A. Smith (University of Florida).37.National Narrative and National History: Russ Castronovo (University ofWisconsin-Madison).Index