Part I
1. Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Transcendentalism-David M. Robinson
2. Hawthorne-Thomas R. Mitchell
3. Melville-Dennis Berthold
4. Whitman and Dickinson-M. Jimmie Killingsworth
5. Mark Twain-Alan Gribben
6. Henry James-Sarah B. Daugherty
7. Wharton and Cather-Carol J. Singley and Ann Moseley
8. Pound and Eliot-Alec Marsh and Jayme Stayer
9. Faulkner-Joseph R. Urgo
10. Fitzgerald and Hemingway-Hilary K. Justice and Robert W. Trogdon
Part II
11. Literature to 1800-William J. Scheick
12. Early-19th-Century Literature-Ed Piacentino
13. Late-19th-Century Literature-Nicolas S. Witschi
14. Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s-Donna M. Campbell
15. Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s-Catherine Calloway
16. Fiction: The 1960s to the Present-Jerome Klinkowitz
17. Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s-Camille Norton
18. Poetry: The 1940s to the Present-Frank Kearful
19. Drama-James J. Martine
20. Themes, Topics, Criticism-Theodore O. Mason, Jr
21. Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Italian Contributions-Maria Anita Stefanelli
22. Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Japanese Contributions, 2003-2004-Keiko Beppu
23. Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Scandinavian Contributions- Bo G. Ekelund, Lene Johannessen, and Henrik Lassen
24. Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Central European Contributions-Elzbieta H. Oleksy and Zoltán Abádi-Nagy
25. General Reference Works-David J. Nordloh