The lay of the land : nation and the responsibilities of literary history

A culture of retrospection : the rise of literary history in the late nineteenth century

Preservation and assimilation : Brander Matthews and the silences of literary history

Class, authority, and literary history

Copyrighting American history : international copyright and the periodization of the nineteenth century

A higher function : literary history and the advent of professionalism

Rancor's remains : Barrett Wendell and the New England renaissance

Relevance and its discontents.