A Companion To The American Short Story

A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years. Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction Embraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writing Includes a section focused on specific authors and texts, from Edgar Allen Poe to John Updike

Alfred Bendixen, Professor of English at Texas A& M University, is the founder of the American Literature Association, which he currently serves as Executive Director. His books include Haunted Women (1985), an edition of the composite novel, The Whole Family (1986), "The Amber Gods" and other stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford, (1989), and Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (1992). He is the associate editor of the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (1999), the co-editor of the recently published Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (2009), and one of the five contributing editors to the forthcoming Wadsworth Anthology of American Literature.

James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Georgia. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature. Among his twenty books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film directed by Lord Richard Attenborough), and The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle. He has published some eighty articles in the field, and he has lectured on American literature in fifteen countries. In 2005, he was given the lifetime achievement award for contributions to the field by the American Literature Association.

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
The Nineteenth Century
The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story
Poe and the American Short Story
A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story
Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America
Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story
New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story
The Short Stories of Edith Wharton
The Transition into the New Century
The Short Stories of Stephen Crane
Kate Chopin
Frank Norris and Jack London
From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change
The Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity
The Hemingway Story
William Faulkner's Short Stories
Katherine Anne Porter
Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style
The Look of the World: Richard Wright on Perspective
Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow
John Updike
Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century
Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls
Expansive Considerations
Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories
The American Ghost Story
The Detective Story
The Asian American Short Story
The Jewish American Story
The Multiethnic American Short Story
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story Cycle
Index
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