Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott
  • The business of fiction. Commodities and celebrities, by Sarah Robbins; The business of publishing American novels, by Catherine Turner; American readers and their novels, by Amy Blair
  • The novel, 1870-1914. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Jonathan Arac; The novel and the Reconstruction amendments, by Jeannine DeLombard; Plessy and the novel, by Edlie Wong; Documenting the real, by Augusta Rohrbach; Journalism and the urban novel, by Betsy Klimasmith; Geographic fictions and the American novel, by Stephanie Foote; Science, medicine, technology & the novel, by Jane Thrailkill; The religious novel, by Claudia Stokes; The Spanish-American War, U.S. expansion, and the novel, by Gretchen Murphy; The immigrant novel, by Josh Miller; The American novel beyond English, by Orm Øverland; Henry James, the novel, and the mediascapes of modernity, by Jonathan Freedman
  • The novel and the early cinema, by John Michael
  • Genre fiction and the novel. The dime novel, by David Kazanjian; Serial fiction, by Jared Gardner; Fictionalizing children, children's fiction, by Caroline Levander; The American bestseller, by Lenny Cassuto; Crime and detective fiction, by Lee Horsley; The comics and the novel, by Michael Moon; Novels of utopia, science fiction, and fantasy, by Gerry Canavan
  • The novel, 1915-1940. Modernism and the international novel, by Mark Scroggins; The novel and the rise of social science, by Susan Hegeman; The native novel, by Sean Teuton; The novel after the Great War, by Paul Giles; The Harlem renaissance novel, by Zita Nunes; Faulkner and the world culture of the global South, by Ramón Saldívar; The Depression and the novel, by Sonnet Retman
  • Hollywood and the American novel, by Patrick Jagoda; Native son and diasporic modernity, by Mikko Tuhkanen; Critical understandings. Mass culture, the novel, and the American left, by Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby; The making of American literature, by Elizabeth Renker; The future of the novel and public criticism in mid-century America, by Paula Rabinowitz.