A Companion to the American Short Story / Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (PDF)

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Part I: The Nineteenth Century. 1 The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story (Alfred Bendixen). 2 Poe and the American Short Story (Benjamin F. Fisher). 3 A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Steven T. Ryan). 4 Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story (Alfred Bendixen). 5 Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America (Charles Duncan). 6 Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story (David E. E. Sloane). 7 New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation (Josephine Donovan). 8 Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story (Martha J. Cutter). 9 The Short Stories of Edith Wharton (Donna Campbell). Part II: The Transition into the New Century. 10 The Short Stories of Stephen Crane (Paul Sorrentino). 11 Kate Chopin (Charlotte Rich). 12 Frank Norris and Jack London (Jeanne Campbell Reesman). 13 From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change (Andrew J. Furer). Part III: The Twentieth Century. 14 The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity (James Nagel). 15 The Hemingway Story (George Monteiro). 16 William Faulkner's Short Stories (Hugh Ruppersburg). 17 Katherine Anne Porter (Ruth M. Alvarez). 18 Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice (Ruth D. Weston). 19 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style (Kirk Curnutt). 20 "The Look of the World": Richard Wright on Perspective (Mikko Tuhkanen). 21 Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow (Gloria L. Cronin). 22 John Updike (Robert M. Luscher). 23 Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century (Sandra Lee Kleppe). 24 Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls (Karen Weekes). Part IV: Expansive Considerations. 25 Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories (Leah B. Glasser). 26 The American Ghost Story (Jeffrey

Alfred Bendixen has taught at Princeton University, Texas A&M University, California State University - Los Angeles, and Barnard College. He is best known as the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His recent work focuses on the development of genre in a democratic society and includes The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, co-edited with Judith Hamera (2009); A Companion to the American Novel, (Blackwell 2012); The Cambridge History of American Poetry, co-edited with Stephen Burt (2015); and The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield ( Routledge 2017).

James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 he served as Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature. Among his twenty-four books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film directed by Lord Richard Attenborough), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories. He has published some eighty articles in the field, and he has lectured on American literature in seventeen countries.

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