19th Century American Short Stories (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460875523 ISBN 13: 9780460875523

Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics, 1995

Synopsis

During the "American Renaissance," the short story became something of a national specialty, as these selections from Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, James, Henry and Edith Wharton illustrate. Great examples of regional realism, provocative commentary on race and gender from authors such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and incisive psychological study enliven this genre, which attracted writers through the Civil War and the "Gilded Age" for the unity of effect and impression it achieved in a single sitting.

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About the Author:

Christopher Bigsby is |Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and is Director of the Arthur Miller Centre there.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0460875523
• ISBN 13: 9780460875523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Bigsby C W E, Bigsby Christopher