Contents; Foreword by Tom Quirk; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Historical Context; 2. Early- and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prose: Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville; 3. Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Larcom, Thaxter, Lanier, Tabb; 4. Post-Civil War Prose: Twain, Harte, Howells, James; 5. Latter-Nineteenth-Century Prose: Stowe, Jewett, Freeman, Chopin; 6. The African American Heritage: Equiano, Jacobs, Douglass, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Harper; 7. Early-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Wharton, Cather, Glasgow; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |