Table of Contents:
  • Men of color, women, and uppity art at the turn of the century / Elizabeth Ammons
  • Nineteenth-century women poets and realism / Cheryl Walker
  • I can't write a book / Nancy Walker
  • Reading her/stories against his/stories in early Chinese American literature / Amy Ling
  • Native American literatures and the canon / Patricia Okker
  • Romance and realism / Sanford E. Marovitz
  • Problems of representation in turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction / Susan K. Harris
  • Three black writers and the anthologized canon / Keneth Kinnamon
  • Recanonizing the multiple canons of Henry James
  • From painful cult to painful realism / Alfred Habegger
  • Is Huckleberry Finn politically correct? / Tom Quirk
  • Whatever happened to Bret Harte? / Gary Scharnhorst.