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• Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

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• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Flore Chevaillier
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), by Michelle Robinson
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• On Howells: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Edwin Harrison Cady and Louis J. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• Neodomestic American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kristin J. Jacobson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)

• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)
• Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Barbara Foley (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (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)

• The Whig Myth of James Fenimore Cooper (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938), by Dorothy Waples (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Political Novel: Its Development in England and in America (New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1924), by Morris Edmund Speare (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by David Greven (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Mark and the Knowledge: Social Stigma in Classic American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Marjorie Pryse (PDF at Ohio State)
• Henry James: A Critical Study (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1915), by Ford Madox Ford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction (Electronic Mediations 52; Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Hugo Gernsback, ed. by Grant Wythoff (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction (London and New York: Routledge, c2007), by Sharon DeGraw (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Frank Herbert (c1981), by Tim O'Reilly (illustrated HTML at oreilly.com)
• Heinlein in Dimension: A Critical Analysis (c1968), by Alexei Panshin (HTML at panshin.com)
• Science Fiction Bibliography ("vol. 1 no. 1" only issue published; Austin: Science Fiction Syndicate, 1935), by D. R. Welch (PDF with commentary at efanzines.com)

• The Meaning of Moby Dick (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), by William S. Gleim (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Advance of the American Short Story (second edition; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1931), by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Early American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Henri Petter (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• 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)

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