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04786aam a2200529 i 4500 001 4E50BC40FC1F11E7B7150C4F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180118010544 008 160415s2016 miu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016007481 020 $a 047213003X 020 $a 9780472130030 035 $a (OCoLC)946987469 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/s $a s------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/s 050 00 $a PS374.S5 $b C65 2016 082 00 $a 813/.010903 $2 23 100 1 $a Collins, Michael J. $q (Michael James), $d 1984- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016020799 245 14 $a The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / $c Michael J. Collins. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c [2016] 300 $a vi, 270 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802 -- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent -- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard -- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs -- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies -- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England -- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism. 520 8 $a This book argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture. By resurrecting long-neglected theatrical influences on representative works of short fiction, Michael J. Collins demonstrates that it was the unruly culture of the stage that first energized this most significant of American art forms. Whether it was Washington Irving's first job as theater critic, Melville's politically controversial love of British drama, Alcott's thwarted dreams of stage stardom, Poe and Lippard's dramatizations of peculiarly bloodthirsty fraternity hazings, or Hawthorne's fascination with automata, theater was a key imaginative site for the major pioneers of the American short story. The book shows how perspectives from theater studies, anthropology,and performance studies can enrich readings of the short story form. Moving beyond arbitrary distinctions between performance and text, it suggests that this literature had a social life and was engaged with questions of circumatlantic and transnational culture. It suggests that the short story itself was never conceived as a nationalist literary form,but worked by mobilizing cosmopolitan connections and meanings. In so doing, the book resurrects a neglected history of American Federalism and its connections to British literary forms. 650 0 $a Short stories, American $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111636 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101032 650 0 $a Performance in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007571 650 0 $a Performing arts in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007741 650 0 $a Theater in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009143 650 0 $a Ritual in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114229 651 0 $a America $x In literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114181 650 0 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033350 650 7 $a Performance in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057873 650 7 $a Performing arts in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057956 650 7 $a Ritual in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01098256 650 7 $a Short stories, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01117064 650 7 $a Theater in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149340 651 7 $a America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239786 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118064105.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E50BC40FC1F11E7B7150C4F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search