The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American Renaissance Machine generated contents note: Introduction Christopher N. Phillips; Into the Renaissance: 1. Reading the American Renaissance in a Pennsylvania library Christopher N. Phillips; 2. Cooper Simms and the boys of summer Jeffrey Walker; 3. The trouble with the Gothic: Poe Lippard and the poetics of critique Russell Sbriglia; 4. Emerson and Hawthorne; or locating the American Renaissance Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson; 5. Cosmopolite at home: global Longfellow Christoph Irmscher; Rethinking the Renaissance: 6. Sins of the rising generation: religion and the American Renaissance Zachary McLeod Hutchins; 7. Uncle Toms Cabin and the struggle over meaning: from slavery to race Barbara Hochman; 8. The (im)possibilities of Indianness: George Copway and the problem of representativity Mark Rifkin; 9. The poetess at work Alexandra Socarides; 10. Fern Warner and the work of sentimentality Jennifer Brady; 11. Melville: the ocean and the city Wyn Kelley; Beyond the Renaissance: 12. Whitman in and out of the Renaissance David Haven Blake; 13. A Renaissance self: Frederick Douglass and the art of remaking Zoe Trodd; 14. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper In the situation of Ishmael Melba J. Boyd; 15. The corner stones of Heaven: science comes to concord Laura Dassow Walls; Coda: War and the Renaissance Christopher N. Phillips