Toward a theory
Art's region
Literary progress
Democratic vistas and the cosmopolitan charge
Cosmopolitanism
1850-1900
Representative fiction
Hamlin Garland's provincial literature
Local color
1900-1930
The ends of local color
Willa Cather's parables of authorship
The critical distance of Wharton, Johnson, Masters, and Frederick
The revolt from the village: Anderson, Lewis, Suckow
The southern renaissance and the world's body
The passport to this world: Harlem, Hester Street, and beyond
The rest
After 1930
The new new regionalism and the future of literature.