{"product_id":"the-cambridge-introduction-to-the-american-short-story-hardback-9780521826433","title":"The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story (Hardback) 9780521826433","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive introduction to the genre from Edgar Allen Poe to Raymond Carver.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Scofield (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521826433, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 September 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e302 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.615 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Adrian Hunter's Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English tackles this ambitious task with deliberate selectivity and yet with the declared aim of introducing his readers to a wide selection of short story writers writing in English from a variety of origins.' Archiv\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers  a comprehensive and accessible  guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin\u003cbr\u003e 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003e 4. Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003e 5. Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e 6. New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e 7. Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane\u003cbr\u003e 8. Henry James\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman\u003cbr\u003e 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton\u003cbr\u003e 11. Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e 12. O. Henry and Jack London\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sherwood Anderson\u003cbr\u003e 14. Ernest Hemingway\u003cbr\u003e 15. F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e 16. William Faulkner\u003cbr\u003e 17. Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e 18. Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965\u003cbr\u003e 19. Aspects of the American short story 1930–80\u003cbr\u003e 20. Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream\u003cbr\u003e 22. The postmodern short story in America\u003cbr\u003e 22. Raymond Carver\u003cbr\u003e 23. Epilogue: the contemporary American short story\u003cbr\u003e Guide to further reading.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Regional studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Regional studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Regional%20studies%20%5BGTB%5D%22\"\u003eGTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265182585112,"sku":"9780521826433","price":77.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521826433i.jpg?v=1692020264","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-introduction-to-the-american-short-story-hardback-9780521826433","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}