From the Book - First American edition.
1. The conditions of American literature / Marcus Cunliffe
2. Literary culture in Colonial America / Larzer Ziff
3. The god that neglected to come : American literature 1780-1820 / Martin Green
4. James Fenimore Cooper : cultural prophet and literary pathfinder / Kay S. House
5. Edgar Allan Poe / Ian M. Walker
6. New England transcendentalism / George Hochfield
7. Nathaniel Hawthorne / Agostino Lombardo
8. Merman Melville / Martin Green and Bernard McCabe
9. Walt Whitman / Denis Donoghue
10. New England : the universal Yankee nation / Marcus Cunliffe
11. Henry James : the prey of all the patriotisms / Howell Daniels
12. Mark Twain's gods and tormentors : the treasure, the river, the nigger and the twin brother / Bernard Poli
13. 'Years of the modern' : the rise of realism and naturalism / Malcolm Bradbury.