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.
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