Introduction, What is method and why does it matter? / Michael A. Elliott and Claudia Stokes
Domesticating virtue : coquettes and revolutionaries in young America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Vanishing Americans : gender, empire, and new historicism / Lora Romero
Seeing sentiment : photography, race, and the innocent eye / Laura Wexler
Queen of America goes to Washington City : Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant
Mass culture/popular culture : notes for a humanist's primer / Roy Harvey Pearce
Dancing for eels at Catherine Market / W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
AIDS, homophobia, and biomedical discourse : an epidemic of signification / Paula A. Treichler
Occult of true black womanhood / Ann duCille
Mass public and the mass subject / Michael Warner
Traditional narrative : contemporary uses, historical perspectives / Elaine A. Jahner
Stakes of textual border-crossing : Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and feminist critical practices / Sau-ling C. Wong
Americanization : what are we talking about? / Rob Kroes.
