The Cambridge history of the American novel

Pt.1 Inventing the American novel : Introduction : inventing the American novel / Benjamin Reiss

Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel / Paul Giles

Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US / Anna Mae Duane

Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic / Bryan Waterman

The novel in the antebellum book market / Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray

American land, American landscape, American novels / Timothy Sweet

Cooper and the idea of the Indian / Sandra M. Gustafson

The nineteenth-century historical novel / Winfried Fluck

Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance / Jonathan Arac

Melville and the novel of the sea / Hester Blum

Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel / Gregory S. Jackson

Manhood and the early American novel / Milette Shamir

Sentimentalism / Cindy Weinstein

Supernatural novels / Elizabeth Young

Imagining the South / Jennifer Rae Greeson

Stowe, race, and the antebellum American novel / John Ernest

The early African American novel / Robert S. Levine

Pt.2 Realism, protest, accommodation : Introduction : realism, protest, accommodation / Clare Virginia Eby

Realism and radicalism : the school of Howells / Michael A. Elliott

James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal / Carrie Tirado Bramen

Theories of the American novel in the age of realism / Lawrence Buell

The novel in postbellum print culture / Nancy Glazener

Twain, class, and the Gilded age / Andrew Lawson

Dreiser and the city / Jude Davies

Novels of civic protest / Cecelia Tichi

Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism / David A. Zimmerman

New Americans and the immigrant novel / Tim Prchal

Cather and the regional imagination / Tom Lutz

Wharton, marriage, and the new woman / Jennifer L. Fleissner

The postbellum race novel / Robert F. Reid-Pharr

The African American novel after reconstruction / Barbara McCaskill

The rise of naturalism / Donna Campbell

Imagining the frontier / Stephanie Le Menager

Imperialism, Orientalism, and empire / Russ Castronovo

The hemispheric novel in the post-revolutionary era / Gretchen Murphy

The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism / Elizabeth Nolan

Dime novels and the rise of mass-market genres / Shelley Streeby

Readers and reading groups / Barbara Hochman.

Pt.3 Modernism and beyond : Introduction : modernism and beyond / Clare Virginia Eby

Stein, Hemingway, and American modernisms / Peter Nicholls

The Great Gatsby and the 1920s / Kirk Curnutt

Philosophy and the American novel / Robert Chodat

Steinbeck and the proletarian novel / Alan M. Wald

The novel, mass culture, mass media / Mark McGurl

Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel / Valerie Babb

Ellison and Baldwin : aesthetics, activism, and the social order / Lovalerie King

Religion and the twentieth-century American novel / Amy Hungerford

Faulkner and the Southern novel / Candace Waid

Law and the American novel / Gregg Crane

Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback / James L.W. West III

The novel of crime, mystery, and supsense / Sean McCann

US novels and US wars / John Carlos Rowe

Science fiction / Priscilla Wald

Female genre fiction in the twentieth century / Pamela Regis

Children's novels / Julia Mickenberg

The American novel and the rise of the suburbs / Catherine Jurca

The Jewish great American novel / Andrew Horberek

The Beats and the 1960s / Robert Faggen

Literary feminisms / Maria Farland

Reimagining genders and sexualities / Elizabeth Freeman

Pt.4 Contemporary formations : Introduction : contemporary formations / Benjamin Reiss

Postmodern novels / Ursula K. Heise

The nonfiction novel / David Schmid

Disability and the American novel / David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder

Model minorities and the minority model : the neoliberal novel / Walter Benn Michaels

The American borderlands novel / Ramón Saldívar

The rise of the Asian American novel / Susan Koshy

Toni Morrison and the post-civil rights African American novel / Michael Hill

Hemispheric American novels / Rodrigo Lazo

The worlding of the American novel / Bruce Robbins

The Native American tradition / Sean Kicummah Teuton

Contemporary ecofiction / Jonathan Levin

Graphic novels / Jan Baetens

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities / Denel Rehberg Sedo

A history of the future of narrative / Robert Coover.