Introduction / Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith
Literary pasts and presents
"It is difficult to disengage a single thread from the living web of a nation's literature": Sarah Piatt and the construction of literary history / Karin L. Hooks
Wavering in delight: time, progress, and the turn of the century in Theodore Dreiser's sister Carrie / Myrto Drizou
Writing into modernity: Edith Wharton's the writing of fiction / John Nichols
Contrasting cultures
"That is why i sent you to Carlisle": Carlisle poetry and the demands of americanization poetics and politics
On Jane Addams's feminist pragmatism: finding modern value in recovering the sentimental myth of the "devil baby" / Kristen Renzi
Gender, marriage, and sexuality
Companionate marriage across the century's turn: progress, patriarchy, and the problem of representation / Melanie V. Dawson
Laura jean libbey and sexual transformation / Dale Bauer
Jessie Fauset's not-so-new negro women: the Harlem Renaissance, the long nineteenth century, and the legacy of feminine representation / Meredith L. Goldsmith
Yours for the (marriage) revolution: Mary Austin and Jack London / Donna Campbell.