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| Preface | |
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| An Overview of the American Short Story | |
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| Irving and the Predecessors of the American Story | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker" | |
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| "Adventure of a Young English Officer among the Abenakee Savages" | |
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| "Indian Fidelity" | |
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| "The Calamities of War and the Effects of Unbridled Passion" | |
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| "Amelia; or, The Faithless Briton. An Original Novel, Founded upon Recent Events" | |
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| "The Fatal Effects of Seduction, Exemplified in a Letter from the Reformed Edmund, to His Friend" | |
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| "Three Days after Marriage: or, the History of Ned Easy and Mrs. Manlove. A Story Founded in Fact" | |
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| "The Story of the Captain's Wife and an Aged Woman" | |
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| "Anecdote [An Argument against the Ownership of Slaves]" | |
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| "Intrepidity of a Negro Woman" | |
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| "The Wretched Taillah: An African Story" | |
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| "The Negro" | |
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| "The Indians: A Tale" | |
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| "Rip Van Winkle" | |
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| American Romanticism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" | |
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| "The Indian Wife" | |
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| "The Horse Swap" | |
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| "Young Goodman Brown" | |
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| "The Fall of the House of Usher" | |
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| "The Big Bear of Arkansas" | |
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| "Rappaccini's Daughter" | |
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| "The Cask of Amontillado" | |
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| "The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One" | |
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| "Bartleby, the Scrivener" | |
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| "Benito Cereno" | |
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| "The Two Offers" | |
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| "Circumstance" | |
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| "The Prescription" | |
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| Realism and Naturalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | |
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| "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" | |
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| "A White Heron" | |
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| "The Return of a Private" | |
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| "The Revolt of 'Mother'" | |
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| "The Yellow Wallpaper" | |
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| "The Real Thing" | |
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| "Desiree's Baby" | |
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| "The Wife of His Youth" | |
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| "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | |
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| "The Blue Hotel" | |
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| "M'sieu Fortier's Violin" | |
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| "The Soft-Hearted Sioux" | |
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| "A Deal in Wheat" | |
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| "The Lynching of Jube Benson" | |
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| "The Other Two" | |
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| "A Wagner Matinee" | |
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| "The Problem of Old Harjo" | |
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| "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" | |
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| "To Build a Fire" | |
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| "Emmy" | |
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| "The Education of Popo" | |
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| Modernism and Experimentation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Fat of the Land" | |
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| "Maria Concepcion" | |
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| "Blood-Burning Moon" | |
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| "Death in the Woods" | |
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| "A Start in Life" | |
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| "Winter Dreams" | |
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| "Hills Like White Elephants" | |
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| "A Summer Tragedy" | |
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| "The Chrysanthemums" | |
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| "The Secret Life of Walter Mirty" | |
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| "Petrified Man" | |
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| "Barn Burning" | |
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| "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara" | |
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| "The River" | |
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| "Help Her to Believe" ["I Stand Here Ironing"] | |
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| "Defender of the Faith" | |
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| "Sonny's Blues" | |
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| The Contemporary Expansion of the Genre | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Views of My Father Weeping" | |
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| "Everyday Use" | |
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| "Storyteller" | |
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| "Railroad Standard Time" | |
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| "Killings" | |
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| "Shiloh" | |
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| "Red Clowns" | |
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| "The Red Convertible" | |
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| "Columbus in Chains" | |
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| "Hiding" | |
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| "Four Directions" | |
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| "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" | |
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| "Open Arms" | |
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| "Nada" | |
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| "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" | |
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| "Morse Code" | |
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| "Who's Irish?" | |
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| "The Princess of Nebraska" | |
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| List of Sources | |
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| Selected Books for the Study of the American Short Story | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |