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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
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
Chapter 10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
Chapter 11 Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century
Chapter 12 O. Henry and Jack London
Chapter 13 Sherwood Anderson
Chapter 14 Ernest Hemingway
Chapter 15 F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chapter 16 William Faulkner
Chapter 17 Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor
Chapter 18 Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965
Chapter 19 Aspects of the American short story 1930–1980
Chapter 20 Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream
Chapter 21 The postmodern short story in America
Chapter 22 Raymond Carver
Chapter 23 Epilogue: the contemporary American short story
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index
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