Table of Contents

Introduction: John Neal: Across the American Renaissance, Edward Watts and
David J. Carlson
Chapter One: “’I Must Resemble Nobody’: John Neal, Genre, and the Making of American Literary Nationalism,” Matthew Pethers
Chapter Two: “The Herbage of Death”: Haunted Environments in John Neal and James Fenimore Cooper,” Matthew Wynn Sivils
Chapter Three: “Eye-Witness to History: The Anti-Narrative Aesthetic of Neal’s Seventy-Six,” Jeffrey Insko
Chapter Four: “Notes on Poetic Push-Pin and the Writing of Life in John Neal's Authorship,“ Jorg Thomas Richter
Chapter Five: “Celebrated Rubbish: John Neal and the Commercialization of Early American Romanticism,” Maya Merlob
Chapter Six: “John Neal, The Rise of the Critick, and the Rise of American Art,”
Francesca Orestano
Chapter Seven: “John Neal and John Dunn Hunter,” Jonathan Elmer
Chapter Eight: “Another Declaration of Independence”: John Neal’s Rachel Dyer and the Assault on Precedent,” David J. Carlson
Chapter Nine: “Here, There, and Everywhere: The Elusive Regionalism of John Neal,”
Kerin Holt”
Chapter Ten: “’He Could Not Believe that Butchering Red Men Was Serving Our Maker’: ‘David Whicher’ and the Indian Hater Tradition,” Edward Watts
Chapter Eleven: “John Neal and the Early Discourse of Women’s Rights,”
Karen Weyler
Chapter Twelve: “A Right Manly Man” in 1843: John Neal on Women’s Rights and the Problem of Male Feminism,” Fritz Fleischmann
Chapter Thirteen: “How John Neal Wrote His Autobiography,” Kevin J. Hayes
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Edward Watts is professor of English at Michigan State University. David J. Carlson is professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.