Table of Contents
Cognitive patterns and aesthetic deformations in post-revolutionary American writing: a preliminary inquiry / Grantland S. Rice -- African American's literature, and the nineteenth-century Afro-Protestant press / Frances Smith Foster -- The problem of Hawthorne's popularity / Meredith L. McGill -- Margaret Fuller: the evolution of a woman of letters / Steven Fink -- Rereading Emerson, Whitman / Jay Grossman -- The Transatlantic book trade and Anglo-American literary culture in the nineteenth century / Michael Winship -- American Civil War poetry and the meaning of literary commodification: Whitman, Melville, and others / Lawrence Buell -- Negotiating an audience for American exceptionalism: Redburn an roughing it / Julian Markels -- Writing with an ethical purpose: the case of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Susan S. Williams -- Periodical back (advertisers) to front (editors): whose national values market best? / Martha Banta -- Politics and the writer's career: two cases / Michael T. Gilmore.