{"product_id":"the-american-short-story-handbook-isbn-9780470655429","title":"The American Short Story Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Preface vii \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Historical Overview of the American Short Story 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe American Story to Washington Irving 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Age of Romanticism 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealism and Naturalism 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Modernism 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contemporary American Short Story 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Notable Authors of American Short Stories 55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashington Irving 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdgar Allan Poe 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerman Melville 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Twain 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBret Harte 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKate Chopin 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Crane 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eO. Henry 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSarah Orne Jewett 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles W. Chesnutt 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilla Cather 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnest Hemingway 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Steinbeck 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Faulkner 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJamaica Kincaid 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTim O’Brien 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouise Erdrich 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Great American Short Stories 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin, “The Speech of Polly Baker” 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRuri Colla, “The Story of the Captain’s Wife and an Aged Woman” 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Two Offers” 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHamlin Garland, “Under the Lion’s Paw” 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry James, “The Real Thing” 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrank Norris, “A Deal in Wheat” 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdith Wharton, “The Other Two” 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilla Cather, “A Wagner Matinée” 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJack London, “To Build a Fire” 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Toomer, “Blood-Burning Moon” 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnest Hemingway, “Indian Camp” 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEudora Welty, “Petrified Man” 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Faulkner, “Barn Burning” 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlannery O’Connor, “The River” 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTillie Olsen, “Help Her to Believe” [“I Stand Here Ironing”] 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaymond Carver, “Cathedral” 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Minot, “Hiding” 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmy Tan, “The Joy Luck Club” 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTim O’Brien, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJamaica Kincaid, “Columbus in Chains” 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudith Cofer, “Nada” 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Glossary for the Study of the American Short Story 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Books for Further Study of the American Short Story 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Nagel\u003c\/b\u003e is the Eidson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, USA. He is President of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and Former President of the International Ernest Hemingway Society.  Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and the widely influential series \u003ci\u003eCritical Essays on American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, which published 156 volumes of scholarship.  Among his twenty-three books are \u003ci\u003eStephen Crane and Literary Impressionism\u003c\/i\u003e (1980)\u003ci\u003e, Hemingway in Love and War\u003c\/i\u003e (1989, which was made into a Hollywood film starring Sandra Bullock), \u003ci\u003eThe Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e (2001)\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthology of The American Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to the American Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), and \u003ci\u003eRace and Culture in Stories of New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e (2014)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has been a Fulbright Professor as well as a Rockefeller Fellow. He has published some eighty articles in the field and lectured on American literature in fifteen countries\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of the American Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the topic that is designed to illuminate an important literary genre that has been given short scholarly shrift over the last century.  Written by a renowned literary scholar in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels, it provides an historical overview of the topic, as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories. The author examines the literary history of the genre from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” in 1819 to “The Joy Luck Club”. He covers the intellectual and historical conditions that contributed to the stories of each age, the ideas and themes that emerged in the movement, and the artistic means of expression common to the era.  The book includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for their bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction.  The selected writers, including Edgar Allen Poe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien, represent the chronological flow of the form, both genders, and a variety of ethnicities and nationalities.  The final section of the book offers detailed exegesis of 30 great individual stories. With a glossary of important terms and a bibliography for further study, this is a seminal introduction that will expand and challenge readers’ understanding of the American short story.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A stunning contribution by an acknowledged master of the study of the genre. With a superb introduction, choice of stories, and scholarly support, Nagel's new volume will the first choice for any reader. This is the definitive collection and handbook on the American short story.\"—\u003ci\u003eJeanne Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“This new Handbook offers a valuable overview of the American short story with attention to individual authors and masterpieces as well as to the historical development of the form.  There is no scholar who knows more about the short story in the United States than James Nagel, and students will find this book to be reliable, informative, and illuminating.”—\u003ci\u003eAlfred Bendixen, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“A brilliant chronological mapping of the largely ignored genre of the American short story, by one of the master scholars of American literature.  Generous in its historical inclusiveness and rich contextualization, this is far more than a “Handbook.” It will stand for some time as the definitive work in the field as it establishes the emerging tradition and the canon of the American short story.”—\u003ci\u003eGloria Cronin, Brigham Young University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990155935973,"sku":"NP9780470655429","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470655429.jpg?v=1761786716","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-american-short-story-handbook-isbn-9780470655429","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}