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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editors' Introduction | |
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| Historical Traditions and Genres | |
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| The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism | |
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| Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition | |
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| The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-1900 | |
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| Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in Its Anglo-European Contexts | |
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| American Literary Naturalism | |
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| American Regionalism: Local Color, National Identity, and Global Imperative | |
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| Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism | |
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| The Short Story and the Short Story Sequence, 1865-1914 | |
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| Contexts and Themes | |
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| Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing | |
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| "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History | |
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| Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance | |
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| Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus | |
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| Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914 | |
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| Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives | |
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| Fiction's Many Cities | |
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| Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture | |
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| Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class | |
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| "Ethnic Realism" | |
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| Darwin, Science, and Narrative | |
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| Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative | |
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| Planning Utopia | |
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| American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865-1914 | |
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| Major Authors | |
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| An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott | |
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| America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain | |
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| William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion | |
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| Henry James in a New Century | |
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| Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton | |
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| Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane | |
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| Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal | |
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| Index | |