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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . xv

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Volume 1

A

Abolitionist Writing . . . . . . . . . . 1
Emily E. VanDette

Agrarianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
William Conlogue

"Ain't I a Woman?" . . . . . . . . . . 15
Margaret Washington

Amateurism and Self-Publishing . . . . . . 19
Ann Fabian

American English. . . . . . . . . . . 21
Elsa Nettels

Americans Abroad . . . . . . . . . . 27
Daniel Kilbride

"The American Scholar" . . . . . . . . 31
Robert Sattelmeyer

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans . . . . . . . 35
Carolyn L. Karcher

Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
W. Barksdale Maynard

Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
David C. Miller

The Atlantic Monthly . . . . . . . . . 56
Ellery Sedgwick

Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . 61
William Pannapacker

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table . . . . . 67
Peter Gibian

B

Bachelors and Spinsters . . . . . . . . . 73
Angelic Rodgers

Baltimore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Gregory Scott George

Banking, Finance, Panics, and Depressions . . 81
Larry Schweikart

Baptists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Everett C. Goodwin

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" . . . . . . . . 92
David Kuebrich

Battle-Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Michael Berthold

"Benito Cereno" . . . . . . . . . . 101
Allan Moore Emery

The Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Paul C. Gutjahr

"The Big Bear of Arkansas" . . . . . . . 114
Kevin J. Hayes

Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Scott E. Casper

"The Birth-mark" . . . . . . . . . . 121
Cindy Weinstein

Blacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Elizabeth J. West

Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Shelley R. Block

The Blithedale Romance . . . . . . . . 135
William E. Cain

The Bondwoman's Narrative . . . . . . . 140
Dickson D. Bruce Jr.

Book and Periodical Illustration . . . . . 144
Kevin E. O'Donnell

Book Publishing . . . . . . . . . . 148
Steven Fink

Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Robert E. Abrams

Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Ronald J. Zboray Mary Saracino Zboray

C

California Gold Rush . . . . . . . . . 171
Michael Kowalewski

Calvinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Merit Kaschig

Canada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Damien-Claude Bélanger

Captivity Narratives . . . . . . . . . 185
Lorrayne Carroll

Catholics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Ross Labrie

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" . . . . . . . . . 196
James S. Leonard

Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Natalie Collins Trice

Cherokee Memorials . . . . . . . . . 203
Daniel Heath Justice

Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Nancy D. Chase

Children's and Adolescent Literature . . . . 214
Anne Scott MacLeod

Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Nikolas Huot

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
LeAnne Garner

Circuses and Spectacles . . . . . . . . 228
Gregory J. Renoff

The Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . 232
John Stauffer

Classical Literature . . . . . . . . . . 243
Elz˙bieta Foeller-Pituch

Clotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Janet Gabler-Hover

Colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Roger L. Geiger

Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Desirée Henderson

Concord, Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 262
Robert E. Burkholder

The Confessions of Nat Turner . . . . . . 268
David A. Davis

The Confidence-Man . . . . . . . . . 272
Tom Quirk

Confidence Men . . . . . . . . . . 277
William E. Lenz

Courtship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Karen Tracey

Crime and Punishment . . . . . . . . 286
Carol Colatrella

Cross-Dressing . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Mary Lamb Shelden

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" . . . . . . . 296
Patricia Spence Rudden

Curricula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Lynée Lewis Gaillet

"The Custom-House". . . . . . . . . 306
Frederick Newberry

D

Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Russ Castronovo

Declaration of Sentiments . . . . . . . 316
Denise D. Knight

Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Julie Prebel

Democracy in America. . . . . . . . . 326
David K. Heckerl

The Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Daniel R. Vollaro

Dialect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Gavin Jones

Dime Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Paul J. Erickson

Domestic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . 343
Lisa M. Logan

Dred Scott v. Sandford . . . . . . . . . 349
Paul Finkelman

E

Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Patricia Okker

Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Donald H. Parkerson Jo Ann Parkerson

English Literature . . . . . . . . . . 367
Paul Giles

Ethnology . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Kelli M. Olson

Evangelicals . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Candy Gunther Brown

"Experience". . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Robert Milder

Exploration and Discovery . . . . . . . 389
Bruce Greenfield

F

Factories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Judith A. Ranta

"The Fall of the House of Usher" . . . . . 400
Kevin J. Hayes

Fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Patricia Okker

Female Authorship . . . . . . . . . . 409
Susan Coultrap-McQuin

Feminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Nina Baym

Fireside Poets . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Christoph Irmscher

Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
John A. Burrison

Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States . . . . . . . . . . 432
Nancy Lusignan Schultz

Foreigners . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Bruce A. Harvey

Free Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Louis J. Kern

Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Kristin Boudreau

Fur Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Robert Sattelmeyer

G

The Gates Ajar . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Carol Farley Kessler

German Scholarship . . . . . . . . . 459
LaVern J. Rippley

Gettysburg Address . . . . . . . . . 462
Desirée Henderson

Gift Books and Annuals . . . . . . . . 466
Lorinda B. Cohoon

Godey's Lady's Book . . . . . . . . . . 472
Patricia Okker

Gothic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Ellen Weinauer

Volume 2

H

Harpers Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Joseph M. Petrulionis

Harper's New Monthly Magazine . . . . . 486
Ronald J. Zboray Mary Saracino Zboray

"Hawthorne and His Mosses" . . . . . . 490
Brenda Wineapple

Health and Medicine . . . . . . . . . 493
Cynthia J. Davis

The Hidden Hand . . . . . . . . . . 500
Carole Policy

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Eileen Ka-May Cheng

History of the Conquest of Mexico . . . . . 511
Mark A. Peterson

Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Hope Leslie . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Philip Gould

The House of the Seven Gables . . . . . . 526
Monika Elbert

Humor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Ed Piacentino

I

Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
James M. Bergquist

The Impending Crisis of the South . . . . . 551
Ronald G. Walters

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . . . . . 554
Lovalerie King

Indians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Louise Barnett

"An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man". . . . . . . . . . . 565
Arnold Krupat

Indian Wars and Dispossession . . . . . . 568
Arnold Krupat

Individualism and Community . . . . . . 580
Robert Shulman

The Innocents Abroad . . . . . . . . . 587
Louis J. Budd

Irish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Stacey Lee Donohue

J, K

Jews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Joseph Alkana

Journals and Diaries . . . . . . . . . 602
Ronald J. Zboray Mary Saracino Zboray

Knickerbocker Writers. . . . . . . . . 607
Kent P. Ljungquist

L

Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
Nick Bromell

Landscape Architecture . . . . . . . . 615
James J. Schramer

Leatherstocking Tales . . . . . . . . . 622
Kay Seymour House

Leaves of Grass . . . . . . . . . . . 629
M. Jimmie Killingsworth

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" . . . . . 635
Judith Richardson

Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
William Gleason

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Ronald J. Zboray Mary Saracino Zboray

Letters on the Equality of the Sexes . . . . . 648
Stephen Howard Browne

The Liberator. . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Sandra Harbert Petrulionis

Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta . . . 655
Ronald L. Pitcock

Life in the Iron Mills . . . . . . . . . 659
Jane E. Rose

Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Ronald J. Zboray Mary Saracino Zboray

Literary Criticism . . . . . . . . . . 668
James Emmett Ryan

Literary Marketplace . . . . . . . . . 673
Richard F. Teichgraeber III

Literary Nationalism . . . . . . . . . 679
Christopher Gair

Little Women . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
Anne K. Phillips

Lowell Offering . . . . . . . . . . . 688
Michael Newbury

Lyceums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
Kent P. Ljungquist

Lyric Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
Susan Carol Hauser

M

Manhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
T. Walter Herbert

Manifest Destiny . . . . . . . . . . 710
Robert J. Scholnick

Maritime Commerce . . . . . . . . . 714
R. D. Madison

Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
Dale M. Bauer

Mental Health . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Philip W. Leon

Methodists . . . . . . . . . . . . 728
Merit Kaschig

Mexican-American War . . . . . . . . 732
Donald E. Pease

Miscegenation . . . . . . . . . . . 737
Michael Householder

Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743
Gary Scharnhorst

Moby-Dick. . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
Carolyn L. Karcher

The Morgesons . . . . . . . . . . . 755
Sandra A. Zagarell

Mormons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
Terryl Givens

Mourning. . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
Dana Luciano

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
Deane L. Root

N

Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee . . . . . . . . 773
Thomas E. Scruggs

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . 777
William L. Andrews

Native American Literature . . . . . . . 782
Desirée Henderson

Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788
Lance Newman

Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796
Gustaaf Van Cromphout

Nautical Literature . . . . . . . . . . 802
John Peck

A New Home—Who'll Follow? . . . . . . 805
Sandra A. Zagarell

New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
Shirley E. Thompson

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
John Evelev

O

Oral Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Charlene Avallone

Oratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
James Perrin Warren

The Oregon Trail . . . . . . . . . . 833
Wil Verhoeven

Orientalism . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
Malini Johar Schueller

Our Nig . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842
Eric Gardner

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" . . . 847
Mark Bauerlein

P, Q

Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . 851
Martin T. Buinicki

Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . 859
Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner

Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . 863
William M. Morgan

"The Philosophy of Composition" . . . . 868
Barbara Cantalupo

Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . 872
John Stauffer

Pictorial Weeklies . . . . . . . . . . 877
Lorinda B. Cohoon

"Plymouth Rock Oration" . . . . . . . 881
Stephen Howard Browne

Poems of Emily Dickinson . . . . . . . 883
Domhnall Mitchell

"The Poet" . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Joseph M. Thomas

Political Parties . . . . . . . . . . . 898
Dennis Berthold

Popular Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 902
Ingrid Satelmajer

Popular Science . . . . . . . . . . . 908
Samuel Chase Coale

Pornography . . . . . . . . . . . . 914
Joseph W. Slade III

Presbyterians . . . . . . . . . . . . 917
Philip W. Leon

Proslavery Writing . . . . . . . . . . 921
John Patrick Daly

Protestantism . . . . . . . . . . . 926
Roger Lundin

Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . 931
Joseph Alkana

Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936
Marcy J. Dinius

Puritanism . . . . . . . . . . . . 942
Mason I. Lowance Jr.

Quakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947
Michael L. Birkel

Volume 3

R

"The Raven" . . . . . . . . . . . . 953
Scott Peeples

Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957
Gregory Eiselein

Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965
Terrie Dopp Aamodt

Religious Magazines . . . . . . . . . 971
Mark Fackler Eric Baker

"Resistance to Civil Government" . . . . . 974
Richard J. Schneider

Revolutions of 1848 . . . . . . . . . 979
Daniel Kilbride

Rhetoric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984
Granville Ganter

"Rip Van Winkle" . . . . . . . . . . 989
Steven Blakemore

The Romance . . . . . . . . . . . 994
Michael J. Davey

Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . 1000
David M. Robinson

Ruth Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007
Joyce W. Warren

S

Same-Sex Love. . . . . . . . . . . 1013
Michael Borgstrom

San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
Harriet Rafter

Satire, Burlesque, and Parody . . . . . . 1022
Frank Palmeri

The Scarlet Letter . . . . . . . . . . 1028
Melissa McFarland Pennell

Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036
Laura Dassow Walls

"Self-Reliance" . . . . . . . . . . 1045
Wesley T. Mott

Seneca Falls Convention . . . . . . . 1050
Amy Cummins

Sensational Fiction . . . . . . . . . 1054
David S. Reynolds

Sentimentalism. . . . . . . . . . . 1059
Joyce W. Warren

Sex Education . . . . . . . . . . . 1065
April Rose Haynes

Sexuality and the Body . . . . . . . . 1069
Bruce Burgett

Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075
Rebecca Berne

Slave Narratives . . . . . . . . . . 1081
Yolanda Pierce

Slave Rebellions . . . . . . . . . . 1087
Helen Lock

Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092
Elizabeth J. West

Sociology for the South. . . . . . . . . 1100
John M. Grammer

Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs . . 1102
Johanna Nicol Shields

The Song of Hiawatha . . . . . . . . 1106
Christoph Irmscher

"Song of Myself" . . . . . . . . . . 1112
Ed Folsom

Spanish Speakers and Early "Latino" Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118
Lázaro Lima

Spiritualism . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123
Janet Gabler-Hover

Suffrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128
James R. Britton

Swallow Barn . . . . . . . . . . . 1132
Kevin J. Hayes

T

Tall Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135
Ed Piacentino

Taste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140
David Anthony

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146
Klaus Benesch

Temperance. . . . . . . . . . . . 1152
Amanda Claybaugh

Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158
Alan Ackerman

Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164
Jeffrey Alan Melton

Trail of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . 1167
Jennifer M. Wing

Transcendentalism . . . . . . . . . 1171
David M. Robinson

Travel Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 1180
James J. Schramer

"The Two Offers" . . . . . . . . . 1186
Farah Jasmine Griffin

Two Years before the Mast . . . . . . . 1189
John Peck

Typee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193
Patrick W. Bryant

U

Uncle Tom's Cabin . . . . . . . . . 1199
Cindy Weinstein

Underground Railroad . . . . . . . . 1206
Amy E. Earhart

Unitarians . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211
Dean Grodzins

Urbanization . . . . . . . . . . . 1214
Dana Brand

Utopian Communities . . . . . . . . 1219
Daniel R. Vollaro

W

Walden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225
Robert Sattelmeyer

Walker's Appeal . . . . . . . . . . 1234
R. J. Ellis

Washington, D.C. . . . . . . . . . 1238
Sarah Luria

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242
James Perrin Warren

The Wide, Wide World . . . . . . . . 1246
Jana Lea Argersinger

Wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251
Michael G. Ziser

Woman in the Nineteenth Century . . . . 1258
Christina Zwarg

Y

Young America . . . . . . . . . . 1265
Cheryl D. Bohde

"Young Goodman Brown" . . . . . . . 1270
Lawrence I. Berkove

CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES . . . . . . . 1275

THEMATIC OUTLINE OF CONTENTS . . . . . 1289

LIST OF ENTRIES TO COMPANION SET . . . . . . . . . . . 1293

PRIMARY SOURCES FOR FURTHER READING . . . . . . . . . . 1297

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299