New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon / Donald E. Pease
"Res Publica" of letters / Michael Warner
Rationale for "the American romance" / John McWilliams
Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock
Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" / Priscilla Wald
Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America / Steven Mailloux
Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" / Ivy Schweitzer


Realism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / Robert Weimann
American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas / Gregory S. Jay
"Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river / Howard Horwitz
Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology / Susan Mizruchi
Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / William E. Cain.