Series: American literature series Language: English Pagination: xii, 877 p. LCCN: 48002260 Dewey: 813.09 LC: PS371 .C73 OCLC: 268679 Subject: American fiction — History and criticism.
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Notes: Bibliography: p. 861-862.
First sentence: For the dearth of good American literature during the first 150 or 200 years of the white history of the country, apology is needed less than explanation.
Table of contents
1 I. At the Beginning . Fiction sentimental, didactic, Gothic, Indian, and Revolutionary. William Hill Brown, Susanna H. Rowson, Hannah Foster, Enos Hitchcock, Caroline Matilda Warren, Sally Wood, Tabitha Tenney, Ann Eliza Bleecker, John Davis, and others
2 II. Early Satire and Realism. Gilbert Imlay, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, Royall Tyler
3 III. Vaulting Ambition: Brockden Brown and Others. Charles Brockden Brown, Isaac Mitchell, George Watterson, Samuel Woodworth
4 IV. James Fennimore Cooper and the Historical Romance.
5 V. Contemporaries and Immediate Followers of Cooper, I . John Neal, Lydia Maria Child, James Kirke Paulding, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Timothy Flint and Early Western Fiction
6 VI. Contemporaries and Immediate Followers of Cooper, II . William Gilmore Simms, Robert Montgomery Bird, John Pendleton Kennedy, Daniel Pierce Thompson
7 VII. The Mixed Thirties. William Alexander Caruthers, Theodore Fay, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Richard Hildreth, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry W. Longfellow, George Lippard
8 VIII. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
9 IX. Herman Melville.
10 X. The Domestic Sentimentalists and Other Popular Writers. Susan Warner ("Elizabeth Wetherell"), Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth, Maria Cummins, Caroline Lee Hentz, Marion Harland, Ann Sophia Stephens, "Fanny Fern" (Sara Payson Willis Parton), Mary Jane Holmes, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Mrs. H.B. Goodwin, T.S. Arthur, Josiah Gilbert Holland, E.P. Roe
11 XI. Experiment and Tradition. Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Esten Cooke, George William Curtis, Bayard Taylor, Theodore Winthrop, Oliver Wendell Holmes
12 XII. Civil War and Reconstruction. J. W. De Forest, Albion W. Tourgee
13 XIII. Local-Color, Frontier, and Regional Fiction. Edward Eggleston, George Washington Cable, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Charles Egbert Craddock" (Mary Noailles Murfree)
14 XIV. Mark Twain.
15 XV. William Dean Howells.
16 XVI. Henry James.
17 XVII. New Directions (1890--1940).
18 Notes
19 Bibliography
20 Index
