| aesthetics | authoritarianism | Cicero (106 to 43BCE) | dialogue |
| abolitionism | authorship | class relations | dialogism |
| abortion | Bartram, William (1739-1823) | classicism | Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) |
| African American | Beadle, William (1730-1782) | Coleman, George (1766-1829) | Dickey, James (1923-1997) |
| alienation | Belles Lettres Society | colonialism | didactic fiction |
| Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 | benevolence | comedy | disease |
| Allen, Paul (1775-1826) | Bernard, John (1756-1828) | commerce | disguise |
| Allen, Richard (1760-1831) | The Bible | concealment | dissent |
| allegory | bibliography | Condorcet, Antoine-Nicholas Caritat de (1743-1794) | domesticity |
| Allston, Washington (1779-1843) | Bildungsroman | confidence man | doppelganger |
| ambiguity | biography | consciousness | dreams |
| American culture | Bird, Robert Montgomery (1806-1854) | conspiracy | Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945) |
| American exceptionalism | Bleeker, Anthony (1770-1827) | Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) | Duane, William (1780-1865) |
| American Indian | Bleecker, Ann Elizabeth (1752-1783) | Cope, Thomas P. (1768-1854) | Dunlap, William (1766-1839) |
| American identity | Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1821) | Copley, John Singleton (1738-1815) | Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817) |
| American landscape | Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816) | correspondence | economic relations |
| American periodicals | Brainerd, David (1718-1747) | cosmopolitanism | edition |
| American Revolution, 1775-1783 | Bringhurst, Joseph Jr. (1767-1834) | Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de (1735-1813) | editor |
| animals | British periodicals | crime | Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758) |
| anxiety | Brown, Elijah (1740-1810) | cross-dressing | Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) |
| Apess, William (1798-1839) | Brown, John (1735-1788) | cultural studies | emigration |
| approach-eco-critical | Brown, William Hill (1765-1793) | curiosity | empire |
| approach-feminist | Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) | Dana, Richard Henry, Jr (1815-1882) | empiricism |
| approach-historicist | Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824) | Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) | Encyclopedie |
| approach-new critical | Calvinism | Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) | England |
| approach-postcolonial | capitalism | Davis, John (1774-1854) | English language |
| approach-poststructuralist | captivity narrative | death | Enlightenment |
| approach-psychological | Caribbean | Deism | empire |
| archetypes | Carey, Matthew (1760-1839) | Delaware Indians | empiricism |
| architecture | Caritat, Hocquet (1752-1817) | democracy | epistemology |
| artist | causality | Democratic-Republican Party, 1792-1828 | epistolary fiction |
| Atlantic World | character | Dennie, Joseph (1768-1812) | eroticism |
| Austen, Jane (1775-1817) | China | Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004) | essay |
| Australia | Christianity | detective fiction | Europe |
