The Cambridge History of the American Novel

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xxvi

• General Introduction by Leonard Cassuto
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• pp. 1-14

PART ONE - INVENTING THE AMERICAN NOVEL

• Introduction: inventing the American novel by Benjamin Reiss
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• pp. 15-21

• 1 - Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel by Paul Giles
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• pp. 22-36

• 2 - Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US by Anna Mae Duane
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• pp. 37-50

• 3 - Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic by Bryan Waterman
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• pp. 51-66

• 4 - The novel in the antebellum book market by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
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• pp. 67-87

• 5 - American land, American landscape, American novels by Timothy Sweet
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• pp. 88-102

• 6 - Cooper and the idea of the Indian by Sandra M. Gustafson
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• pp. 103-116

• 7 - The nineteenth-century historical novel by Winfried Fluck
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• pp. 117-134

• 8 - Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance by Jonathan Arac
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• pp. 135-150

• 9 - Melville and the novel of the sea by Hester Blum
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• pp. 151-166

• 10 - Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel by Gregory S. Jackson
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• pp. 167-191

• 11 - Manhood and the early American novel by Milette Shamir
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• pp. 192-208

• 12 - Sentimentalism by Cindy Weinstein
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• pp. 209-220

• 13 - Supernatural novels by Elizabeth Young
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• pp. 221-235

• 14 - Imagining the South by Jennifer Rae Greeson
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• pp. 236-251

• 15 - Stowe, race, and the antebellum American novel by John Ernest
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• pp. 252-266

• 16 - The early African American novel by Robert S. Levine
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• pp. 267-282

PART TWO - REALISM, PROTEST, ACCOMMODATION

• Introduction: realism, protest, accommodation by Clare Virginia Eby
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• pp. 283-288

• 17 - Realism and radicalism: the school of Howells by Michael A. Elliott
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• pp. 289-303

• 18 - James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal by Carrie Tirado Bramen
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• pp. 304-321

• 19 - Theories of the American novel in the age of realism by Lawrence Buell
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• pp. 322-336

• 20 - The novel in postbellum print culture by Nancy Glazener
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• pp. 337-364

• 21 - Twain, class, and the Gilded Age by Andrew Lawson
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• pp. 365-379

• 22 - Dreiser and the city by Jude Davies
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• pp. 380-392

• 23 - Novels of civic protest by Cecelia Tichi
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• pp. 393-408

• 24 - Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism by David A. Zimmerman
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• pp. 409-425

• 25 - New Americans and the immigrant novel by Tim Prchal
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• pp. 426-436

• 26 - Cather and the regional imagination by Tom Lutz
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• pp. 437-451

• 27 - Wharton, marriage, and the New Woman by Jennifer L. Fleissner
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• pp. 452-469

• 28 - The postbellum race novel by Robert F. Reid-Pharr
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• pp. 470-483

• 29 - The African American novel after Reconstruction by Barbara McCaskill
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• pp. 484-498

• 30 - The rise of naturalism by Donna Campbell
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• pp. 499-514

• 31 - Imagining the frontier by Stephanie Le Menager
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• pp. 515-536

• 32 - Imperialism, Orientalism, and empire by Russ Castronovo
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• pp. 537-552

• 33 - The hemispheric novel in the post-revolutionary era by Gretchen Murphy
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• pp. 553-570

• 34 - The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism by Elizabeth Nolan
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• pp. 571-585

• 35 - Dime novels and the rise of mass-market genres by Shelley Streeby
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• pp. 586-599

• 36 - Readers and reading groups by Barbara Hochman
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• pp. 600-614

PART THREE - MODERNISM AND BEYOND

• Introduction: modernism and beyond by Clare Virginia Eby
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• pp. 615-621

• 37 - Stein, Hemingway, and American modernisms by Peter Nicholls
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• pp. 622-638

• 38 - The Great Gatsby and the 1920s by Kirk Curnutt
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• pp. 639-652

• 39 - Philosophy and the American novel by Robert Chodat
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• pp. 653-670

• 40 - Steinbeck and the proletarian novel by Alan M. Wald
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• pp. 671-685

• 41 - The novel, mass culture, mass media by Mark McGurl
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• pp. 686-699

• 42 - Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel by Valerie Babb
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• pp. 700-717

• 43 - Ellison and Baldwin: aesthetics, activism, and the social order by Lovalerie King
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• pp. 718-731

• 44 - Religion and the twentieth-century American novel by Amy Hungerford
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• pp. 732-749

• 45 - Faulkner and the Southern novel by Candace Waid
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• pp. 750-766

• 46 - Law and the American novel by Gregg Crane
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• pp. 767-780

• 47 - Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback by James L. W. West III
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• pp. 781-797

• 48 - The novel of crime, mystery, and suspense by Sean McCann
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• pp. 798-812

• 49 - US novels and US wars by John Carlos Rowe
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• pp. 813-831

• 50 - Science fiction by Priscilla Wald
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• pp. 832-846

• 51 - Female genre fiction in the twentieth century by Pamela Regis
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• pp. 847-860

• 52 - Children's novels by Julia Mickenberg
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• pp. 861-878

• 53 - The American novel and the rise of the suburbs by Catherine Jurca
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• pp. 879-892

• 54 - The Jewish great American novel by Andrew Hoberek
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• pp. 893-908

• 55 - The Beats and the 1960s by Robert Faggen
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• pp. 909-924

• 56 - Literary feminisms by Maria Farland
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• pp. 925-940

• 57 - Reimagining genders and sexualities by Elizabeth Freeman
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• pp. 941-956

PART FOUR - CONTEMPORARY FORMATIONS

• Introduction: contemporary formations by Benjamin Reiss
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• pp. 957-963

• 58 - Postmodern novels by Ursula K. Heise
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• pp. 964-985

• 59 - The nonfiction novel by David Schmid
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• pp. 986-1001

• 60 - Disability and the American novel by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
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• pp. 1002-1015

• 61 - Model minorities and the minority model – the neoliberal novel by Walter Benn Michaels
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• pp. 1016-1030

• 62 - The American borderlands novel by Ramón Saldívar
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• pp. 1031-1045

• 63 - The rise of the Asian American novel by Susan Koshy
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• pp. 1046-1063

• 64 - Toni Morrison and the post-civil rights African American novel by Michael Hill
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• pp. 1064-1083

• 65 - Hemispheric American novels by Rodrigo Lazo
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• pp. 1084-1095

• 66 - The worlding of the American novel by Bruce Robbins
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• pp. 1096-1106

• 67 - The Native American Tradition by Sean Kicummah Teuton
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• pp. 1107-1121

• 68 - Contemporary ecofiction by Jonathan Levin
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• pp. 1122-1136

• 69 - Graphic novels by Jan Baetens
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• pp. 1137-1153

• 70 - Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities by Denel Rehberg Sedo
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• pp. 1154-1167

• 71 - A history of the future of narrative by Robert Coover
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• pp. 1168-1181

• A selected bibliography
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• pp. 1182-1205

• Index
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• pp. 1206-1244