Table of Contents

General introduction; Part I. Inventing the American Novel: Introduction; 1. Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel; 2. Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US; 3. Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early Republic; 4. The novel in the antebellum book market; 5. American land, American landscape, American novels; 6. Cooper and the idea of the Indian; 7. The nineteenth-century historical novel; 8. Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance; 9. Melville and the novel of the sea; 10. Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel; 11. Manhood in the early American novel; 12. Sentimentalism; 13. Supernatural novels; 14. Imagining the South; 15. Stowe, race and the antebellum American novel; 16. The early African American novel; Part II. Realism, Protest, Accommodation: Introduction; 17. Realism and radicalism: the school of Howells; 18. James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal; 19. Theories of the American novel in the age of realism; 20. The novel in postbellum print culture; 21. Twain, class, and the Gilded Age; 22. Dreiser and the city; 23. Novels of civic protest; 24. Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism; 25. New Americans and the immigrant novel; 26. Cather and the regional imagination; 27. Wharton, marriage, and the new woman; 28. The postbellum racial novel; 29. The African American novel after Reconstruction; 30. Literary Darwinism and the rise of naturalism; 31. Imagining the frontier; 32. Imperialism, orientalism, and Empire; 33. The Hemispheric novel in the post-Revolutionary era; 34. The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism; 35. Dime novels and the rise of mass market genres; 36. Readers and reading groups; Part III. Modernism and Beyond: Introduction; 37. Hemingway, Stein, and American modernisms; 38. The Great Gatsby and the 1920s; 39. Philosophy and the American novel; 40. Steinbeck and the proletarian novel; 41. The novel, mass culture, mass media; 42. Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel; 43. Ellison and Baldwin: aesthetics, activism, and the social order; 44. Religion and the twentieth-century American novel; 45. Faulkner and the Southern novel; 46. Law and the American novel; 47. Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback; 48. The novel of crime, mystery, and suspense; 49. US novels and US wars; 50. Science fiction; 51. Female genre fiction in the twentieth century; 52. Children's novels; 53. The American novel and the rise of the suburbs; 54. The Jewish great American novel; 55. The Beats and the 1960s; 56. Literary feminisms; 57. Reimagining genders and sexualities; Part IV. Contemporary Formations: Introduction; 58. Postmodern novels; 59. The nonfiction novel; 60. Disability and the American novel; 61. Model minorities and the minority model – the neoliberal novel; 62. The American Borderlands novel; 63. The rise of the Asian American novel; 64. Toni Morrison and the post-Civil Rights African American novel; 65. Hemispheric American novels; 66. The worlding of the American novel; 67. The Native American tradition; 68. Eco-novels; 69. Graphic novels; 70. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities; 71. A history of the future of narrative; A selected bibliography; Index.