Chapter 1 Seductive Fiction 1. Overview 2. Susanna Haswell Rowson:Charlotte Temple 3. Hannah Webster Foster:The Coquette;or, The History of Eliza Wharton Chapter 2 Gothic Fiction 1. Overview 2. Charles Brockden Brown:Wieland;or The Transformation 3. Issac Mitchell:The Asylum;or Alonzo and Melissa Chapter 3 Historical Romance 1. Overview 2. Lydia Maria Child:Hobomok :A Tale of Early Times 3. Catherine Maria Sedgwick:Hope Leslie 4. Joseph Holt Ingraham:Laffitte :The Pirate of Gulf 5. Robert Montgomery Bird:Nick of the Woods Chapter 4 Classic Detective Fiction 1. Overview 2. Edgar Allan Poe:The Murders in the Rue Morgue 3. Anna Katherine Green:Leavenworth Case Chapter 5 Western Adventure 1. Overview 2. Bennett Emerson:The Bandits of Osage 3. Bennett Emerson:Kate Clarendon Chapter 6 Women's Fiction 1. Overview 2. Susan Bogert Warner:Wide, Wide World 3. E. D. E. N. Southworth:The Hidden Hand 4. August Jane Evans:St. Elmo Chapter 7 City Expos6 Fiction 1. Overview 2. George Lippard:The Quaker City 3. George Thompson:Venus in Boston Chapter 8 Dime Western 1. Overview 2. Edward Sylvester Ellis:The Lost Trail 3. Edward Carroll Judson:Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road 4. Prentiss Ingraham:Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Chapter 9 Religious Fiction 1. Overview 2. Lew Wallace:Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ 3. Charles Monroe Sheldon:In His Steps 4. Harold Bell Wright:That Printer of Udell's Chapter 10 Molasses Fiction 1. Overview 2. Alice Hegan Rice:Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 3. Kate Douglas Wiggin:Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 4. Eleanor Hodgeman Porter:Pollyanna, the Glad Girl Chapter 11 New Historical Romance 1. Overview 2. Mary Johnston:To Have and to Hold 3. George Barr McCutcheon= Graustark Chapter 12 Supernatural Horror Fiction 1. Overview 2. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 3. Robert William Chambers:The King in Yellow Select Bibliography