Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : toward a history of texts
  • The book in the new republic
  • Ideology and genre
  • Literacy, education, and the reader
  • Commodity and communication : the first American novel
  • Privileging the Feme covert : the sociology of sentimental fiction
  • The Picaresque and the margins of political discourse
  • Early American gothic : the limits of individualism
  • Afterword : texts as histories.