1. "The defencelessness of her condition" : villainy and vulnerability in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond -- 2. "Soulless corporation" : oligarchy and the countersubversive presence in James Fenimore Cooper's The bravo -- 3. "A confusion of Popish and Protestant emblems" : insiders and outsiders in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale romance -- 4. "Follow your leader" : captains and mutineers in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno.