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Author:

Fash, Lydia G., 1981- author.

Title:

The sketch, the tale, and the beginnings of American literature / Lydia G. Fash.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

1800-1899
Short stories, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Literary form--History--19th century.
Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.
American fiction.
Books and reading.
Literary form.
Literature and society.
Short stories, American.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index.

Contents:

1. Dueling Temporalities in Irving's Best-Selling Sketch Book -- 2. Biding Time in Hale's Ladies' Magazine -- 3. Nonsynchronous Synchronicity in Sedgwick's Gift Book Stories -- 4. The Chronicle, the Reckoning, and Hawthorne's Puritan Tales -- 5. Beginning Detection with Poe's Mary/Marie -- 6. The Short Fiction Skeleton of the Great American Novel.

Summary:

"Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book shows how short fiction of the early nineteenth century, including sketches and tales, was vital to the birth of a national literary tradition, the great American novel, and even what it meant to be American"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0813943981
9780813943985
0813943973
9780813943978

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1123237361

LCCN:

2019045163

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)