Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. John Bull and Brother Jonathan: A Transatlantic Affair 22
7. Chapter 2. Theater of/for the Nation: The Stage Yankee as Metatheatric Sign 77
8. Chapter 3. The Yankee Peddler Conjures an American Marketplace 136
9. Chapter 4. New England’s “Homespun Yankee” in the Cultural and Literary Imagination 197
10. Chapter 5. Yankee Politics: A Coda 270
11. Appendices 273
12. Bibliography 277
13. Index 301
14. Plates 305