1. Sati in Philadelphia: The Widow(s) of Malabar–Jeffrey H. Richards
2. Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative–Mark Rifkin
3. That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre–Elizabeth Dill
4. "The Best of Me Is There": Emerson as Lecturer and Celebrity–Bonnie Carr O'Neill
5. The Killing Joke of Sympathy: Chester Himes's End of a Primitive Sounds the Limits of Midcentury Racial Liberalism–Jodi Melamed
6. Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Body in Cather and Stein–Anne Raine