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Chapter 1 Seductive Fiction
1. Overview
2. Susanna Haswell Rowson: Charlotte Temple
3. Hannah Webster Foster: The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton
Chapter 2 Gothic Fiction
1. Overview
2. Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland ; or The Transformation
3. Issac Mitchell: The Asylum ; or Alonzo and Melissa
Chapter 3 Historical Romance
1. Overview
2. Lydia Maria Child: Hobomok : A Tale of Early Times
3. Catherine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
4. Joseph Holt Ingraham: Laffitte : The Pirate of Gulf
5. Robert Montgomery Bird: Nick of the Woods
Chapter 4 Classic Detective Fiction
1. Overview
2. Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue ,.
3. Anna Katherine Green: Leavenworth Case
Chapter 5 Western Adventure
1. Overview
2. Bennett Emerson: The Bandits of Osage
3. Bennett Emerson: Kate Clarendon
Chapter 6 Women's Fiction
1. Overview
2. Susan Bogert Warner: Wide, Wide World
3. E. D. E. N. Southworth: The Hidden Hand
4. August Jane Evans: St. Elmo
Chapter 7 City Expos6 Fiction
1. Overview
2. George Lippard: The Quaker City
3. George Thompson: Venus in Boston
Chapter 8 Dime Western
1. Overview
2. Edward Sylvester Ellis: The Lost Trail
3. Edward Carroll Judson: Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road
4. Prentiss Ingraham: Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
Chapter 9 Religious Fiction
1. Overview
2. Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ
3. Charles Monroe Sheldon: In His Steps
4. Harold Bell Wright: That Printer of Udell's
Chapter 10 Molasses Fiction
1. Overview
2. Alice Hegan Rice: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
3. Kate Douglas Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
4. Eleanor Hodgeman Porter: Pollyanna, the Glad Girl
Chapter 11 New Historical Romance
1. Overview
2. Mary Johnston: To Have and to Hold
3. George Barr McCutcheon= Graustark
Chapter 12 Supernatural Horror Fiction
1. Overview
2. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
3. Robert William Chambers: The King in Yellow
Select Bibliography