1: Changing America; 1: The American Scene; 2: The Culture of the Seventies; 3: Changing Theory; 4: The Beginnings of Criticism; 5: Disintegration and Reintegration; 6: The Skepticism of the House of Adams; 7: Victorian Realism; 2: The Old and the New: Storm Clouds; 8: The Plight of the Farmer; 9: The Democracy of the Age of Innocence; 10: Literature and the Middle Border *; 11: The Quest of Utopia; 12: The Darkening Skies of Letters