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The Cambridge introduction to the American short story /

A comprehensive introduction to the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Raymond Carver.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scofield, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2006.
©2006
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; 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.