• • Front Matter
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• • Table of Contents
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• • Acknowledgments
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• • Introduction and background
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• • Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest
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• • The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries:: Literary Life in the Colonies
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• • The Struggle for Nationhood and the Rise of Fiction
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• • The Mid-Nineteenth Century:: Romanticism, Realism, and Nationalism
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• • Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Social Commentary and National Self-Reflection
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• • Naturalism and Modernismo
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• • Conclusion:: Then and Now
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• • Notes
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• • Selected Bibliography
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• • Index
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