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• American fiction -- 19th century

• The Utopian Novel in America, 1886-1896: The Politics of Form (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), by Jean Pfaelzer (page images at Pitt)

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• Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2020), by Antoine Traisnel (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by James L. Machor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Morán González (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Amy Schrager Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dime Novels: or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1929), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Anna Maria Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Luck of a Good for Nothing, by Mrs. A. B. Ward, and Other Stories (cover title is "Short Stories from Outing"; New York: Outing Pub. Co., c1895), contrib. by Alice Ward Bailey, Alfred A. Gardner, Francis Trevelyan, Fox Russell, Edgar Fawcett, Clara Sprague Ross, Wiliam Hinckley, Therese M. Randall, Charles C. Nott, and Franklyn W. Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Short Stories From Outing (New York and London: Outing Pub. Co., c1895) (page images at HathiTrust)