Herman Melville 429
Walt Whitman 448
Part Three 1865 - 1910
Associate Editor, Martha Banta
I. Signs of the times 465
Literature and culture 467
Culture and Consciousness 482
II. Genre Deliberations 499
Realism and Regionalism 501
Naturalism and the languages of determinism 525
III. Literary Diversities 547
Literature for the populace 549
Immigrants and other Americans 568
Women writers and the new woman 589
IV. Major voices 607
Emily Dickinson 609
Mark Twain 627
Henry Adams 645
Henry James 668
Part Four 1910 - 1945
Associate Editor, David Minter
I. Contexts and Backgrounds 693
The emergence of Modernism 695
Intellectual life and public discourse 715
Literary scenes and literary movements 733