Introduction Beginnings to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Introduction The Early American Novel Autobiography and the Early Novel The Book Marketplace I The Romance Romance and Race Domesticity and Fiction Fiction and Reform I The Late Nineteenth Entury Introduction Realism Fiction and the Science of Society Fiction and Reform II Nation, Region, and Empire Gender and Fiction Popular Forms I The Early Twentieth Century Introduction Modernist Eruptions American Proletarianism Popular Forms II Ethnicity and the Marketplace Race and Region Fiction of the West Technology and the Novel Society and Identity The Late Twentieth Century Introduction Postmodern Culture Postmodern Realism Construction Gender Canada in Fiction Carbbean Fiction Latin American Fiction Colonialism, Imperialism, and Imagined Homes The Book Marketplace II Postmodern Fiction The Avant-Garde Biographies of American Authors Selected Bibliography of Critical Works Notes on Contributors Index