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Content: Chapter 1 National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood (pages 7–19): J. Gerald KennedyChapter 2 Fiction and Democracy (pages 20–30): Paul DownesChapter 3 Democratic Fictions (pages 31–39): Sandra M. GustafsonChapter 4 Engendering American Fictions (pages 40–51): Martha J. Cutter and Caroline F. LevanderChapter 5 Race and Ethnicity (pages 52–63): Robert S. LevineChapter 6 Class (pages 64–74): Philip GouldChapter 7 Sexualities (pages 75–86): Valerie RohyChapter 8 Religion (pages 87–96): Paul GutjahrChapter 9 Education and Polemic (pages 97–107): Stephanie FooteChapter 10 Marriage and Contract (pages 108–118): Naomi MorgensternChapter 11 Transatlantic Ventures (pages 119–130): Wil Verhoeven and Stephen ShapiroChapter 12 Other Languages, Other Americas (pages 131–144): Kirsten Silva GrueszChapter 13 Literary Histories (pages 147–157): Michael Drexler and Ed WhiteChapter 14 Breeding and Reading: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic (pages 158–167): Christopher LukasikChapter 15 The American Gothic (pages 168–178): Marianne NobleChapter 16 Sensational Fiction (pages 179–190): Shelley StreebyChapter 17 Melodrama and American Fiction (pages 191–203): Lori MerishChapter 18 Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other “Crossings” in Fictionalized Slave Narratives (pages 204–215): Cherene Sherrard?JohnsonChapter 19 Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction (pages 216–227): Stephanie P. BrownerChapter 20 Law and the American Novel (pages 228–238): Laura H. KorobkinChapter 21 Labor and Fiction (pages 239–248): Cindy WeinsteinChapter 22 Words for Children (pages 249–261): Carol J. SingleyChapter 23 Dime Novels (pages 262–273): Colin T. Ramsey and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian?StodolaChapter 24 Reform and Antebellum Fiction (pages 274–284): Chris CastigliaChapter 25 The Problem of the City (pages 287–300): Heather RobertsChapter 26 New Landscapes (pages 301–313): Timothy SweetChapter 27 The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E. D. E. N. Southworth (pages 314–329): Dana LucianoChapter 28 Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy (pages 330–341): Philip BarnardChapter 29 Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's “Rip Van Winkle” (pages 342–352): Eric Gary AndersonChapter 30 New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land (pages 353–364): Bethany SchneiderChapter 31 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism (pages 365–377): Katherine AdamsChapter 32 Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery (pages 378–387): Nancy BuffingtonChapter 33 The West (pages 388–399): Edward WattsChapter 34 The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris (pages 400–410): David RachelsChapter 35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel (pages 411–424): Wayne FranklinChapter 36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby?Dick (pages 425–433): Stephanie A. SmithChapter 37 National Narrative and National History (pages 434–444): Russ Castronovo