Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Novel and America
- The Novel's audience and the sentimental love religion
- Richardson and the tragedy of seduction
- The Burgeois sentimental novel and the female audience
- The Beginnings of the Anti-bourgeois sentimental novel in America
- Charles Brockden Brown and the invention of the American gothic
- James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance
- Clarissa in America: toward Marjorie Morningstar
- Good good girls and good bad boys: Clarissa as a juvenile
- The Revenge of woman: from Lucy to Lolita
- The Failure of sentiment and the evasion of love
- The Blackness of darkness: Edgar Allan Poe and the development of the gothic
- The Power of blackness: faustian man and the cult of violence