Beginnings to the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyIntroduction&Cathy N.Davidson 3
The Early American Novel&Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky 6
Autobiography and the Early Novel&Nellie McKay 26
The Book Marketplace Ⅰ&Michael T.Gilmore 46
The Romance&Terence Martin 72
Romance and Race&Joan Dayan 89
Domesticity and Fiction&Lora Romero 110
Fiction and Reform Ⅰ&Robert S.Levine 130
The Late Nineteenth CenturyIntroduction&Christopher P.Wilson 157
Realism&Robert Shulman 160
Fiction and the Science of Society&Susan Mizruchi 189
Fiction and Reform Ⅱ&Phillip Brian Harper 216
Nation,Region,and Empire&Amy Kaplan 240
Gender and Fiction&Elizabeth Ammons 267
Popular Forms Ⅰ&Christine Bold 285
The Early Twentieth CenturyIntroduction&Valerie Smith 309
Modernist Eruptions&Margot Norris 311
American Proletarianism&Paul Lauter 331
Popular Forms Ⅱ&Bill Brown 357
Ethnicity and the Marketplace&Thomas J.Ferraro 380
Race and Region&Thadious M.Davis 407
Fiction of the West&James H.Maguire 437
Technology and the Novel&Cecelia Tichi 465
Society and Identity&David Van Leer 485
The Late Twentieth CenturyIntroduction&Patrick O'Donnell 513
Postmodern Culture&Cornel West 515
Postmodern Realism&Jos？ David Sald？var 521
Constructing Gender&Ed Cohen 542
Canada in Fiction&Arnold E.Davidson 558
Caribbean Fiction&Sandra Pouchet Paquet 586
Latin American Fiction&Debra A.Castillo 607
Colonialism,Imperialism,and Imagined Homes&Ketu H. Katrak 649
The Book Marketplace Ⅱ&John M.Unsworth 679
Postmodern Fiction&Molly Hite 697
The Avant-Garde&Robert Boyers 726
Biographies of American Authors 753
Selected Bibliography of Critical Works 821
Notes on Contributors 847
Index 853