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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 | |