- Aberrations in black, toward a queer of color critique, Roderick A. Ferguson
- The fabulators
- The indestructible woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck, by Mimi Reisel Gladstein
- Black fiction, new studies in the Afro-American novel since 1945, edited by A. Robert Lee
- The Pulitzer prize novels;, a critical backward look,, by W. J. Stuckey
- Leopards in the temple, the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970, Morris Dickstein
- The origins of the American detective story, LeRoy Lad Panek
- Playing the game, the homosexual novel in America, by Roger Austen
- Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston, the common bond, edited by Lillie P. Howard
- Pretend we're dead, capitalist monsters in American pop culture, Annalee Newitz
- Living stories, telling lives, women and the novel in contemporary experience, Joanne S. Frye
- American fiction, 1920-1940:, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John P. Marquand [and] John Steinbeck
- From wiseguys to wise men, the gangster and Italian American masculinities, Fred L. Gardaphe
- New strangers in paradise, the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction, Gilbert H. Muller
- Claiming the heritage, African-American women novelists and history, by Missy Dehn Kubitschek
- Native sons in no man's land, rewriting Afro-American manhood in the novels of Baldwin, Walker, Wideman, and Gaines, Philip Auger
- Reasons to believe, new voices in American fiction, Michael Schumacher
- New Americans, the westerner and the modern experience in the American novel, Glen A. Love
- The lunatic giant in the drawing room;, the British and American novel since 1930
- Down from the mountaintop, Black women's novels in the wake of the civil rights movement, 1966-1989, Melissa Walker
- The contemporary American comic epic, the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey, Elaine B. Safer
- In defence of fantasy, a study of the genre in English and American literature since 1945, Ann Swinfen
- The American novel in the twentieth century, Miles Donald
- Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction, Susan Sellers
- Fifty years of the American novel;, a Christian appraisal,, edited by Harold C. Gardiner
- Touching the web of southern novelists, David Madden
- The modern short story in the making
- Books with men behind them
- 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction, the Misplaced Heritage, edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn, Jaime Harker
- The politics of exile, ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin, Bryan R. Washington
- Portraits of the new Negro woman, visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
- The police procedural, George N. Dove
- Dirt and desire : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990, Patricia Yaeger
- The age of the American novel;, the film aesthetic of fiction between the two wars., Translated by Eleanor Hochman
- No crystal stair, visions of race and sex in Black women's fiction, Gloria Wade-Gayles
- A cultural history of the American novel, Henry James to William Faulkner, David Minter
- Six existential heroes: the politics of faith, [by] Lucio P. Ruotolo
- Diminishing fictions, essays on the modern American novel and its critics, Bruce Bawer
- The hidden script, writing and the unconscious, David Punter
- Twentieth-century American literary naturalism, an interpretation, by Donald Pizer
- The American city novel;, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, Nelson Algren, Betty Smith, Leonard Bishop, Willard Motley, and others
- Robert Penn Warren's circus aesthetic and the Southern renaissance, Patricia L. Bradley
- Man in modern fiction;, some minority opinions on contemporary American writing
- Fact & fiction, the new journalism and the nonfiction novel, by John Hollowell
- The absurd hero in American fiction:, Updike, Styron, Bellow [and] Salinger,, by David D. Galloway
- The American absurd, Pynchon, Vonnegut, and Barth, by Robert A. Hipkiss
- Lilith's daughters, women and religion in contemporary fiction, Barbara Hill Rigney
- Paradigms of paranoia, the culture of conspiracy in contemporary American fiction, Samuel Chase Coale
- Healing narratives, women writers curing cultural dis-ease, Gay Wilentz
- The age of the crisis of man, thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973, Mark Greif