Part
1. The Background
1. The Physical Background
2. The Racial Background
3. The Intellectual Background Part
2. The Mind of Colonial America
4. The Beginnings of the American Mind
5. The Flowering of the Colonial Mind
6. Revolution and Reaction Part
3. Romanticism in America
7. American Romanticism
8. The Romantic Movement in Virginia
9. The West
10. Charleston and Southern Culture
11. Philadelphia
12. New York, the Cosmopolitan City
13. The New England Renaissance
14. Walt Whitman
15. Development of the American Novel to 1860 Part
4. The Triumph of Realism
16. The Industrialization of the United States
17. Three Critics of the Gilded Age
18. The Twilight of Romanticism
19. Western Humor
20. Lost in the Gilded Age
21. The Rise of Realism
22. Naturalism
23. Romance and Sociology
24. The New Poetry
25. The Battle of the Village
26. The New Romance
27. The Drama in America
28. In Conclusion
