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ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . xv PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Volume 1AAbolitionist Writing . . . . . . . . . . 1 Agrarianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 "Ain't I a Woman?" . . . . . . . . . . 15 Amateurism and Self-Publishing . . . . . . 19 American English. . . . . . . . . . . 21 Americans Abroad . . . . . . . . . . 27 "The American Scholar" . . . . . . . . 31 An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans . . . . . . . 35 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Atlantic Monthly . . . . . . . . . 56 Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table . . . . . 67 BBachelors and Spinsters . . . . . . . . . 73 Baltimore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Banking, Finance, Panics, and Depressions . . 81 Baptists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 "Bartleby, the Scrivener" . . . . . . . . 92 Battle-Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 "Benito Cereno" . . . . . . . . . . 101 The Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 "The Big Bear of Arkansas" . . . . . . . 114 Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 "The Birth-mark" . . . . . . . . . . 121 Blacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 The Blithedale Romance . . . . . . . . 135 The Bondwoman's Narrative . . . . . . . 140 Book and Periodical Illustration . . . . . 144 Book Publishing . . . . . . . . . . 148 Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 CCalifornia Gold Rush . . . . . . . . . 171 Calvinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Canada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Captivity Narratives . . . . . . . . . 185 Catholics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" . . . . . . . . . 196 Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Cherokee Memorials . . . . . . . . . 203 Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Children's and Adolescent Literature . . . . 214 Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Circuses and Spectacles . . . . . . . . 228 The Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Classical Literature . . . . . . . . . . 243 Clotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Concord, Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 262 The Confessions of Nat Turner . . . . . . 268 The Confidence-Man . . . . . . . . . 272 Confidence Men . . . . . . . . . . 277 Courtship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Crime and Punishment . . . . . . . . 286 Cross-Dressing . . . . . . . . . . . 292 "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" . . . . . . . 296 Curricula . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 "The Custom-House". . . . . . . . . 306 DDeath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Declaration of Sentiments . . . . . . . 316 Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 Democracy in America. . . . . . . . . 326 The Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Dialect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 Dime Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 Domestic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . 343 Dred Scott v. Sandford . . . . . . . . . 349 EEditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 English Literature . . . . . . . . . . 367 Ethnology . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Evangelicals . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 "Experience". . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Exploration and Discovery . . . . . . . 389 FFactories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 "The Fall of the House of Usher" . . . . . 400 Fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 Female Authorship . . . . . . . . . . 409 Feminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 Fireside Poets . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States . . . . . . . . . . 432 Foreigners . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 Free Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Fur Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 GThe Gates Ajar . . . . . . . . . . . 455 German Scholarship . . . . . . . . . 459 Gettysburg Address . . . . . . . . . 462 Gift Books and Annuals . . . . . . . . 466 Godey's Lady's Book . . . . . . . . . . 472 Gothic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Volume 2HHarpers Ferry . . . . . . . . . . . 483 Harper's New Monthly Magazine . . . . . 486 "Hawthorne and His Mosses" . . . . . . 490 Health and Medicine . . . . . . . . . 493 The Hidden Hand . . . . . . . . . . 500 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 History of the Conquest of Mexico . . . . . 511 Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 Hope Leslie . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 The House of the Seven Gables . . . . . . 526 Humor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 IImmigration . . . . . . . . . . . . 545 The Impending Crisis of the South . . . . . 551 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . . . . . 554 Indians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man". . . . . . . . . . . 565 Indian Wars and Dispossession . . . . . . 568 Individualism and Community . . . . . . 580 The Innocents Abroad . . . . . . . . . 587 Irish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 J, KJews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 Journals and Diaries . . . . . . . . . 602 Knickerbocker Writers. . . . . . . . . 607 LLabor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611 Landscape Architecture . . . . . . . . 615 Leatherstocking Tales . . . . . . . . . 622 Leaves of Grass . . . . . . . . . . . 629 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" . . . . . 635 Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 Letters on the Equality of the Sexes . . . . . 648 The Liberator. . . . . . . . . . . . 651 Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta . . . 655 Life in the Iron Mills . . . . . . . . . 659 Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664 Literary Criticism . . . . . . . . . . 668 Literary Marketplace . . . . . . . . . 673 Literary Nationalism . . . . . . . . . 679 Little Women . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 Lowell Offering . . . . . . . . . . . 688 Lyceums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691 Lyric Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 MManhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 Manifest Destiny . . . . . . . . . . 710 Maritime Commerce . . . . . . . . . 714 Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718 Mental Health . . . . . . . . . . . 723 Methodists . . . . . . . . . . . . 728 Mexican-American War . . . . . . . . 732 Miscegenation . . . . . . . . . . . 737 Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743 Moby-Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 The Morgesons . . . . . . . . . . . 755 Mormons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759 Mourning. . . . . . . . . . . . . 761 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766 NNarrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee . . . . . . . . 773 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . 777 Native American Literature . . . . . . . 782 Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796 Nautical Literature . . . . . . . . . . 802 A New Home—Who'll Follow? . . . . . . 805 New Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 OOral Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . 821 Oratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826 The Oregon Trail . . . . . . . . . . 833 Orientalism . . . . . . . . . . . . 838 Our Nig . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842 "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" . . . 847 P, QPeriodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . 851 Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . 859 Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . 863 "The Philosophy of Composition" . . . . 868 Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 Pictorial Weeklies . . . . . . . . . . 877 "Plymouth Rock Oration" . . . . . . . 881 Poems of Emily Dickinson . . . . . . . 883 "The Poet" . . . . . . . . . . . . 891 Political Parties . . . . . . . . . . . 898 Popular Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 902 Popular Science . . . . . . . . . . . 908 Pornography . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 Presbyterians . . . . . . . . . . . . 917 Proslavery Writing . . . . . . . . . . 921 Protestantism . . . . . . . . . . . 926 Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . 931 Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936 Puritanism . . . . . . . . . . . . 942 Quakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947 Volume 3R"The Raven" . . . . . . . . . . . . 953 Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965 Religious Magazines . . . . . . . . . 971 "Resistance to Civil Government" . . . . . 974 Revolutions of 1848 . . . . . . . . . 979 Rhetoric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984 "Rip Van Winkle" . . . . . . . . . . 989 The Romance . . . . . . . . . . . 994 Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . 1000 Ruth Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007 SSame-Sex Love. . . . . . . . . . . 1013 San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . 1017 Satire, Burlesque, and Parody . . . . . . 1022 The Scarlet Letter . . . . . . . . . . 1028 Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036 "Self-Reliance" . . . . . . . . . . 1045 Seneca Falls Convention . . . . . . . 1050 Sensational Fiction . . . . . . . . . 1054 Sentimentalism. . . . . . . . . . . 1059 Sex Education . . . . . . . . . . . 1065 Sexuality and the Body . . . . . . . . 1069 Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075 Slave Narratives . . . . . . . . . . 1081 Slave Rebellions . . . . . . . . . . 1087 Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092 Sociology for the South. . . . . . . . . 1100 Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs . . 1102 The Song of Hiawatha . . . . . . . . 1106 "Song of Myself" . . . . . . . . . . 1112 Spanish Speakers and Early "Latino" Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118 Spiritualism . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123 Suffrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128 Swallow Barn . . . . . . . . . . . 1132 TTall Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135 Taste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140 Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146 Temperance. . . . . . . . . . . . 1152 Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158 Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164 Trail of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . 1167 Transcendentalism . . . . . . . . . 1171 Travel Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 1180 "The Two Offers" . . . . . . . . . 1186 Two Years before the Mast . . . . . . . 1189 Typee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193 UUncle Tom's Cabin . . . . . . . . . 1199 Underground Railroad . . . . . . . . 1206 Unitarians . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211 Urbanization . . . . . . . . . . . 1214 Utopian Communities . . . . . . . . 1219 WWalden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225 Walker's Appeal . . . . . . . . . . 1234 Washington, D.C. . . . . . . . . . 1238 "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242 The Wide, Wide World . . . . . . . . 1246 Wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251 Woman in the Nineteenth Century . . . . 1258 YYoung America . . . . . . . . . . 1265 "Young Goodman Brown" . . . . . . . 1270 CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES . . . . . . . 1275 THEMATIC OUTLINE OF CONTENTS . . . . . 1289 LIST OF ENTRIES TO COMPANION SET . . . . . . . . . . . 1293 PRIMARY SOURCES FOR FURTHER READING . . . . . . . . . . 1297 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299 |
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