Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction to the American Novel
  • Historical Codes in Literary Analysis
  • Women, Blood, and Contract
  • Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales
  • Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
  • Afterword
  • Further Reading
  • Index.
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness
  • Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts
  • Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper
  • Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville
  • Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott
  • Afterword.