Table of contents for The Cambridge introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel

Table of contents for The Cambridge introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel / Gregg Crane.

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 12
The Early American Novel 23
1 The Romance 64
What is Romance? 64
Historical Romance 77
Philosophical Romance 149
Sensational Romance 206
2 The Sentimental Novel 224
What is the Sentimental Novel? 224
Theme and Variations: a Young Woman's story 244
Sentiment and Reform 271
The Sentimental Novel and the Argument against Reform 293
Sentiment, Upward Mobility, and the African American Novel 302
Moving toward Realism 319
3 The Realist Novel 330
What is American Literary Realism? 330
Realist Technique and Subject Matter. 349
Tensions, Divergences, and Extremes within Realism 377
The Taste for Excess -- Sensationalism Redux 429
Works cited 469

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literary form -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and history -- United States.
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.