Introduction: shifts, zigzags, impacts / Russ Castronovo
Antipodean American geography: Washington Irving's "globular" narratives / Paul Giles
The art of chaos: community and African American literary traditions / John Ernest
Are "American novels" novels?: Mardi and the problem of boring books / Jordan Alexander Stein
Reading race through disability: slavery and agency in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and "Those extraordinary twins" / Ellen Samuels
The invention of Mexican America / Jesse Alemán
Creole kinship: privacy and the novel in the New World / Nancy Bentley
Looking at state violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket / Shelley Streeby
Transatlantic vs. hemispheric: Toni Morrison's long nineteenth century / Anna Brickhouse
Temporality, race, and empire in Cooper's The Deerslayer: the beginning of the end / Robert S. Levine
The visible and invisible city: antebellum writers and urban space / Jeffrey Steele
Animals and the formation of liberal subjectivity in nineteenth-century American literature / Colleen Glenney Boggs
Archives of publishing and gender: historical codes in literary analysis / Shirley Samuels
The novel as board game: homiletic identification and forms of interactive narrative / Gregory S. Jackson
Skepticism in nineteenth-century American literature and philosophy / Maurice S. Lee
On the redundancy of "transnational American studies" / Jared Hickman
How to read: regionalism and the Ladies' Home Journal / Travis M. Foster
Literature and the news / Elisa Tamarkin
Reading minds in the nineteenth century / Paul Gilmore
Making an example: American literature as philosophy / Elizabeth Duquette
Abolition and activism: the present uses of literary criticism / James Dawes
Whose protest novel? Ramona, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Indian / Susan Gillman
Nineteenth-century American literature without nature? Rethinking environmental criticism / Stephanie Le Menager
"Action, action, action": nineteenth-century literature for twenty-first-century citizenship? / Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson.
