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25101 critical
25102 methodologies
25103 The
25104 volume
25105 turns
25106 to
25107 the
25108 nineteenth
25109 century
25110 as
25111 a
25112 formative
25113 era
25114 in
25115 American
25116 literary
25117 history
25118 a
25119 time
25120 that
25121 saw
25122 both
25123 the
25124 rise
25125 of
25126 the
25127 novel
25128 as
25129 a
25130 genre
25131 and
25132 the
25133 emergence
25134 of
25135 an
25136 independent
25137 confident
25138 American
25139 culture
25140 A
25141 broad
25142 range
25143 of
25144 concise
25145 essays
25146 by
25147 European
25148 and
25149 American
25150 scholars
25151 demonstrates
25152 how
25153 some
25154 of
25155 Americas
25156 most
25157 wellknown
25158 and
25159 influential
25160 novels
25161 responded
25162 to
25163 and
25164 participated
25165 in
25166 the
25167 radical
25168 transformations
25169 that
25170 characterized
25171 American
25172 culture
25173 between
25174 the
25175 early
25176 republic
25177 and
25178 the
25179 age
25180 of
25181 imperial
25182 expansion
25183 Part
25184 I
25185 consists
25186 of
25187 systematic
25188 essays
25189 on
25190 key
25191 historical
25192 and
25193 critical
25194 frameworks
25195 including
25196 debates
25197 aboutrace
25198 and
25199 citizenship
25200 transnationalism