BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Full bibliographies for all of the major novelists and most of the minor figures discussed in this volume may be found in The Cambridge History of American Literature (Putnam: 1917-21: 4 vols.) edited by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, and Carl Van Doren. See especially the bibliographies to Chapters vi and vii in Book II and Chapter xi in Book III—all three of them dealing particularly with prose fiction. In A Manual of American Literature (Putnam: 1909) edited by Theodore Stanton there is a useful chapter on The Novelists by Clark Sutherland Northup. Other important general accounts are: Leading American Novelists (Holt: 1910) by John Erskine; Southern Fiction Prior to 1860: An Attempt at a First-Hand Bibliography (University of Virginia: 1909) by J. G. Johnson; History of Southern Fiction by Edwin Mims in The South in the Building of the Nation (Richmond: 1909-13: 13 vols.); A History of American Literature Since 1870 (Century: 1915) by F. L. Pattee.
CHAPTER I
The period to 1830 is covered in The Early American Novel (Columbia University: 1907) by Lillie Deming Loshe and in Early American Fiction, 1774-1830 (Privately printed, Stamford, Conn.: 1902; revised edition, New York: 1913), a bibliography by Oscar Wegelin. For Brackenridge see A Bibliography of H. H. Brackenridge (Heartman, New
