Foreword / Michael Winship -- Introduction / Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles -- Dante in America: The First Hundred Years / Kathleen Verduin -- The Material Melville: Shaping Readers' Horizons / Michael Kearns -- Judging Literary Books by Their Covers: House Styles, Ticknor and Fields, and Literary Promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves -- Literature in Newsprint: Antebellum Family Newspapers and the Uses of Reading / Amy M. Thomas -- Manufacturing Intellectual Equipment: The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun / Susan S. Williams -- Finding His Mark: Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Subscription Book / Nancy Cook -- Defining the National Pantheon: The Making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical Series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper -- Materiality as Performance: The Forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michel Moylan -- Packaging Literature for the High Schools: From the Riverside Literature Series to Literature and Life / Lane Stiles