Author: A. Robert Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389205937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
The Nineteenth-century American Short Story
Author: A. Robert Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389205937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389205937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Scribbling Women
Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
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.
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
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.
John Neal and Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture
Author: Edward Watts
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Author: John Updike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories
Author: Christopher Looby
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812223667
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812223667
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature.
American Short Story Cycle
Author: Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474423957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474423957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
History of the Short Story in America
Author: Elizabeth Baxter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Regional Fictions
Author: Stephanie Foote
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299171132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Out of many, one—e pluribus unum—is the motto of the American nation, and it sums up neatly the paradox that Stephanie Foote so deftly identifies in Regional Fictions. Regionalism, the genre that ostensibly challenges or offers an alternative to nationalism, in fact characterizes and perhaps even defines the American sense of nationhood. In particular, Foote argues that the colorful local characters, dialects, and accents that marked regionalist novels and short stories of the late nineteenth century were key to the genre’s conversion of seemingly dangerous political differences—such as those posed by disaffected Midwestern farmers or recalcitrant foreign nationals—into appealing cultural differences. She asserts that many of the most treasured beliefs about the value of local identities still held in the United States today are traceable to the discourses of this regional fiction, and she illustrates her contentions with insightful examinations of the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, Hamlin Garland, Gertrude Atherton, George Washington Cable, Jacob Riis, and others. Broadening the definitions of regional writing and its imaginative territory, Regional Fictions moves beyond literary criticism to comment on the ideology of national, local, ethnic, and racial identity.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299171132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Out of many, one—e pluribus unum—is the motto of the American nation, and it sums up neatly the paradox that Stephanie Foote so deftly identifies in Regional Fictions. Regionalism, the genre that ostensibly challenges or offers an alternative to nationalism, in fact characterizes and perhaps even defines the American sense of nationhood. In particular, Foote argues that the colorful local characters, dialects, and accents that marked regionalist novels and short stories of the late nineteenth century were key to the genre’s conversion of seemingly dangerous political differences—such as those posed by disaffected Midwestern farmers or recalcitrant foreign nationals—into appealing cultural differences. She asserts that many of the most treasured beliefs about the value of local identities still held in the United States today are traceable to the discourses of this regional fiction, and she illustrates her contentions with insightful examinations of the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, Hamlin Garland, Gertrude Atherton, George Washington Cable, Jacob Riis, and others. Broadening the definitions of regional writing and its imaginative territory, Regional Fictions moves beyond literary criticism to comment on the ideology of national, local, ethnic, and racial identity.
The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
An unparalleled treasury of American 19th century mystery fiction selected and introduced by Otto Penzler.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
An unparalleled treasury of American 19th century mystery fiction selected and introduced by Otto Penzler.