Foreword by J. Hillis Miller
PART I Style and Covert Progressions in American Short Fiction
1 Style, Unreliability, and Hidden Dramatic Irony: Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
2 Style and Unobtrusive Emasculating Satire: Crane’s “An Episode of War”
3 Style, Surprise Ending, and Covert Mythologization: Chopin’s “Désirée’s Baby”
PART II Style and Different Forms of Covert Progression in Mansfield’s Fiction
4 Style, Changing Distance, and Doubling Irony: Mansfield’s “Revelations”
5 Style and Concealed Social Protest: Mansfield’s “The Singing Lesson”
6 Style and Secretly Unifying the Digressive: Mansfield’s “The Fly”