| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xi, 399 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 357-380. |
| Contents |
The beginnings of the American short story: Washington Irving -- Romance, allegory, and morality: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville -- Terror, mystery, and ratiocination: Edgar Allen Poe -- Local color and Western humor: Bret Harte and Mark Twain -- The regional story in New England, the South, and the Middle West: Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, Hamlin Garland, and others -- The rise of the journalistic short story: O. Henry and his predecessors -- The short story as fine art: Henry James -- The short story in transition: Stephen Crane, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Theodore Dreiser -- The liberation of the short story: Sherwood Anderson -- Short-story writers of the 1920s: Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Conrad Aiken, and Stephen Vincent Benét -- The discovery of a style: Ernest Hemingway -- Virtuoso storyteller: William Faulkner -- Social protest and other themes in the short story, 1930 to 1940: Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, and Kay Boyle -- Symbolism and sensibility: Katherine Anne Porter -- The short story since 1940: Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Jean Stafford, J.F. Powers, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, and Flannery O'Connor. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0806110708 |
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