A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN NOVEL -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Chronology of the American Novel -- Part I: Historical Developments -- 1: The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre -- 2: The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance -- 3: The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860-1920) -- 4: Modernism and the American Novel -- 5: Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars -- 6: The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945-1970 -- 7: The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970-Present) -- Part II: Genres and Traditions -- 8: Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States -- 9: The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow -- 10: Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States -- 11: Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel -- 12: The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier -- 13: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel -- 14: Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel -- 15: Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel -- 16: African American Traditions and the American Novel -- 17: The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection -- 18: O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel -- 19: Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States -- 20: Queer Theory and the American Novel -- 21: The American Short-Story Cycle: Out From the Novel's Shadow -- Part III: Major Texts -- 22: The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter -- 23: Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's Moby-Dick.

24: Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 25: Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady -- 26: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace -- 27: What Women Want: Kate Chopin's The Awakening -- 28: Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage -- 29: Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's House of Mirth -- 30: The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises -- 31: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the Land -- 32: Ground Zero: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury -- 33: A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's Native Son and the Great American Novel -- 34: Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity -- 35: The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March -- 36: The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 37: A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel -- Index.