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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
The early American novel 6
The romance 26
What is the romance? 26
The historical romance 32
The philosophical romance: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville 67
The sensational romance - a taste for excess 94
The sentimental novel 103
What is the sentimental novel? 103
Theme and variations: a young woman's story 113
Sentiment and reform: Uncle Tom's Cabin 125
Sentiment and the argument against reform: The Planter's Northern Bride 136
Sentiment, upward mobility, and the African American novel 140
Moving toward realism 148
The realist novel 155
What is American literary realism? 155
Realist technique and subject matter 164
Tensions, divergences, and extremes within realism 179
The taste for excess - sensationalism redux 203
Notes 208
Works cited 220
Index 231
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