The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story

by Martin Scofield

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521533813
• ISBN13: 9780521533812
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"