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Author : Douglas Tallack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0415077435
Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813523931
From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings--a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron--is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention ignites during a sudden storm. These tales of remarkable and ordinary lives in nineteenth-century America are told throughout women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell. Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, as well as by others less familiar, reveal a universe of emotions hidden beneath parochial scenes. American writers claimed the short story as their national genre in the nineteenth century, and women writers made it the most important outlet for their particular experiences. A unique selection, with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of the authors' lives and times.
Author : Christopher Looby
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812223668
The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature.
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395843677
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Author : Charles L. Crow,Susan Castillo Street
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781785273896
The twelve Gothic tales of this collection span the nineteenth-century South and are from some of the most famous writers of the age, such as Edgar Allan Poe, to more recently rediscovered and now celebrated writers such as Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt, to the completely and unfairly obscure E. Levi Brown. Companion readings—some themselves quite chilling—are by celebrated writers and well-known historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, Charles Brockden Brown, Jacques Dessalines, and W. E. B DuBois. These readings place the fiction in the context of the South and the Caribbean: the revolution in Haiti, Nat Turner’s rebellion, the realities of slavery and the myths spun by its apologists, the aftermath of the Civil War, and the brutalities of Jim Crow laws.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0460875523
In the nineteenth century the short story played a central role in the development of American and European literature and became something of an American speciality. For Edgar Allan Poe the 'tale' had marked advantages over the novel, since the unity of effect and impression - of great importance to the author - could only be achieved at a single sitting, and the short story offered the perfect opportunity. Including the works of Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James and Edith Wharton this unique collection illustrates the force of the short story.
Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389205931
This collection addresses the key American short story writers-Poe, Irving, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, Bierce, Chopin, and James-and addresses both the vision and the design of their collective achievement.
Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909254756
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
Author : Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813521521
Critics, science fiction writers, scientists, and scholars throughout the world hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in 1966 as a book that would transform our evaluation of science fiction and our understanding of American culture. The praise has proved well founded, for Future Perfect has been more responsible than any other single work for the recognition of the value and significance of science fiction.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : Harriet Devine Jump
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134704651
This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as: * Maria Edgeworth * Mary Shelley * Elizabeth Gaskell * Margaret Oliphant Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women also includes: * a scholarly introduction * biographies for each of the authors * full explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading * a critical commentary, publication details and historical context * a full and wide-ranging bibliography The bibliography of resources and further reading will enable those interested in pursuing research on any author or topic to do so with ease, and a thematic index will enable teachers to select material best suited to their courses.
Author : Bigsby,Christopher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9350092468
Author : Erik Redling,Oliver Scheiding
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110585322
The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
Author : Elizabeth Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : IND:30000089994960
Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052142870X
This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte Temple (1791), and ending with Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913), Harris scans white, middle-class women's writing throughout the nineteenth century. In the process she both explores reading behaviour and formulates a literary history for mainstream nineteenth-century American women's fiction. Through most of the twentieth century, women's novels of the earlier period have been denigrated as conventional, sentimental, and overwritten. Harris shows that these conditions are actually narrative strategies, rooted in cultural imperatives and, paradoxically, integral to the later development of women's texts that call for women's independence. Working with actual women's diaries and letters, Harris first shows what contemporary women sought from the books they read. She then applies these reading strategies to the most popular novels of the period, proving that even the most apparently retrograde demonstrate their heroines' abilities to create and control areas culturally defined as male.