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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

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