The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865 /

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This book argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture. By resurrecting long-neglected theatrical influences on representative works of short...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Michael J. (Michael James), 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater in literature.
Short stories, American.
Ritual in literature.
Performing arts in literature.
Performance in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature.
American fiction.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Nouvelles americaines > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Rendement au travail dans la litterature.
Arts du spectacle dans la litterature.
Theâtre dans la litterature.
Rituel dans la litterature.
Short stories, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
America.
Amerique > Dans la litterature.
America > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802
  • "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
  • The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard
  • "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs
  • The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies
  • "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England
  • Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism.

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