Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin
- Chapter 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Chapter 4 Edgar Allan Poe
- Chapter 5 Herman Melville
- Chapter 6 New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain
- Chapter 7 Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane
- Chapter 8 Henry James
- Chapter 9 Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman
- Chapter 10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
- Chapter 11 Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century
- Chapter 12 O. Henry and Jack London
- Chapter 13 Sherwood Anderson
- Chapter 14 Ernest Hemingway
- Chapter 15 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chapter 16 William Faulkner
- Chapter 17 Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor
- Chapter 18 Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965
- Chapter 19 Aspects of the American short story 1930–1980
- Chapter 20 Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream
- Chapter 21 The postmodern short story in America
- Chapter 22 Raymond Carver
- Chapter 23 Epilogue: the contemporary American short story
- Notes
- Guide to further reading
- Index
- References
Guide to further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin
- Chapter 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Chapter 4 Edgar Allan Poe
- Chapter 5 Herman Melville
- Chapter 6 New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain
- Chapter 7 Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane
- Chapter 8 Henry James
- Chapter 9 Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman
- Chapter 10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
- Chapter 11 Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century
- Chapter 12 O. Henry and Jack London
- Chapter 13 Sherwood Anderson
- Chapter 14 Ernest Hemingway
- Chapter 15 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chapter 16 William Faulkner
- Chapter 17 Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor
- Chapter 18 Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965
- Chapter 19 Aspects of the American short story 1930–1980
- Chapter 20 Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream
- Chapter 21 The postmodern short story in America
- Chapter 22 Raymond Carver
- Chapter 23 Epilogue: the contemporary American short story
- Notes
- Guide to further reading
- Index
- References
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(ed.), American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York and London: Garland, 1995Google Scholar
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(ed.), The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000Google Scholar
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, The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , (eds.), Since Flannery O'Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story, Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1987Google Scholar
, The Short Story Cycle: a Genre Companion and Reference Guide, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989Google Scholar
and (eds.), American Short Story Writers Since World War II, 4th Series, Detroit: Gale Group, 2001Google Scholar
, The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001Google Scholar
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(ed.), Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, New York: Checkmark Books, Facts on File Inc., 2000Google Scholar
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, and , (eds.), Short Story Theory at the Crossroads, Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1989Google Scholar
(ed.) The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice, New York: Twayne; London: Prentice International, 1995Google Scholar
, The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1960), Hoboken, NJ: Melville House, 2004Google Scholar
Thurston, Jarvis, Short Fiction Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of Stories and Novelettes (American, British, Continental) 1800–1958, Denver: A. Swallow, 1960
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