The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (LOA #395) - John Stauffer - diskuze

The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writersAs much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of styles and subjects that has still not been fully appreciated. Diverse, wide-ranging, and unprecedented in its scope, The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century gathers more than one hundred stories by fifty different writers. This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume anthology of nineteenth-century American short fiction follows the evolution of American short story from Bret Harte’s mid-century tales of the Gold Rush frontier to Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Stones of the Village,” a story about racial passing written around 1900 but not published in the author’s lifetime.Henry James, generously represented in this volume, dominates the second half of the century, though also represeanted here are the accomplishments of the so-called local-color writers associated with the post–Civil War period. The indelible stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Kate Chopin are justly celebrated examples of this strain, and those writers are represented by several stories, but ample space is also given here to stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson and Mary Wilkins Freeman
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