Constructing American lives: biography & culture in nineteenth-century America

Biographical mania : toward a cultural history of genre

Didactic nationalism versus Johnsonian theory, 1790-1830 : Fables of Parson Weems

Representative men and women, 1820-1860 : Two readers' worlds

Truth and tradition, nation and section, 1820-1860 : Hawthorne, Sparks, and biography at midcentury

The inner man in the literary market, 1850-1880 : James A. Garfield, biography reader and biographical subject

Publishers, pantheons, and the public, 1880-1900

The dawn of biography is breaking.