PREFACE xvii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxix
American Literature 1820-1865
INTRODUCTION 3
TIMELINE 22
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) 25
The Author's account of himself 27
Rip Van Winkle 29
The Legend of sleepy hollow 41
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) 62
The pioneers 64
Volume II, Chapter II [The judge's history of the settlement; A sudden storm] 65
Volume II, Chapter III [The slaughter of the pigeons] 72
The last of the mohicans 79
Volume I, Chapter III [Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook; stories of the fathers] 80
CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK (1789-1867) 86
Hope Leslie 88
Volume I, Chapter IV [Magawisca's history of "The pequod war"] 89
Volume II, Chapter XIV [Magawisca's farewell] 102
LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865) 106
Death of an infant 107
To the first slave ship 108
Indian Names 109
Slavery 111
Our Aborigines 112
Fallen Forests 113