Ideology and Classic American Literature Book

Acknowledgments;

1. Introdution: beyond transcendence Myra Jehlen;

Part I. Reassessments:
2. Symbol and idea in Virgin Land Henry Nash Smith;
3. Pastoralism in America Leo Marx;
4. Myth and the production of history Richard Slotkin;
5. American criticism left and right Gerald Graff;

Part II. Perspectives:
6. The novel and the middle class in America Myra Jehlen;
7. Figurations for a new American literary history Houston A. Baker, Jr.;
8. American studies as a cultural program Alan Trachtenberg;
9. Reification and American literature Carolyn Porter;

Part III. Texts:
10. Mysteries of the city: a reading of Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd' Robert H. Byer;
11. The politics of The Scarlet Letter Jonthan Arac;
12. Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history Jane Tompkins;
13. Walden and the 'curse of trade' Michael T. Gilmore;

Part IV. The Example of Melville:
14. Melville's economy of language Paul Royster;
15. Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre Emory Elliott;
16. The hive of subtlety: 'Benito Cereno' and the liberal hero James H. Kavanagh;
17. Melville and cultural persuasion Donald E. Pease;
18. Afterword Sacvan Bercovitch; Selected bibliography; Index.