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Preface ix
An Overview of the American Short Story 1
Irving and the Predecessors of the American Story 11
Introduction 11
"The Speech of Miss Polly Baker" 20
"Adventure of a Young English Officer among the Abenakee Savages" 22
"Indian Fidelity" 24
"The Calamities of War and the Effects of Unbridled Passion" 26
"Amelia; or, The Faithless Briton. An Original Novel, Founded upon Recent Events" 29
"The Fatal Effects of Seduction, Exemplified in a Letter from the Reformed Edmund, to His Friend" 43
"Three Days after Marriage: or, the History of Ned Easy and Mrs. Manlove. A Story Founded in Fact" 45
"The Story of the Captain's Wife and an Aged Woman" 48
"Anecdote [An Argument against the Ownership of Slaves]" 53
"Intrepidity of a Negro Woman" 54
"The Wretched Taillah: An African Story" 55
"The Negro" 57
"The Indians: A Tale" 59
"Rip Van Winkle" 67
American Romanticism 81
Introduction 81
"Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" 89
"The Indian Wife" 98
"The Horse Swap" 104
"YoungGoodman Brown" 110
"The Fall of the House of Usher" 121
"The Big Bear of Arkansas" 135
"Rappaccini's Daughter" 145
"The Cask of Amontillado" 167
"The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One" 173
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" 183
"Benito Cereno" 212
"The Two Offers" 273
"Circumstance" 282
"The Prescription" 292
Realism and Naturalism 307
Introduction 307
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 320
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" 325
"A White Heron" 333
"The Return of a Private" 341
"The Revolt of 'Mother'" 355
"The Yellow Wallpaper" 367
"The Real Thing" 381
"Desiree's Baby" 400
"The Wife of His Youth" 405
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 414
"The Blue Hotel" 422
"M'sieu Fortier's Violin" 444
"The Soft-Hearted Sioux" 449
"A Deal in Wheat" 455
"The Lynching of Jube Benson" 464
"The Other Two" 470
"A Wagner Matinee" 485
"The Problem of Old Harjo" 492
"Mrs. Spring Fragrance" 498
"To Build a Fire" 506
"Emmy" 519
"The Education of Popo" 542
Modernism and Experimentation 555
Introduction 555
"The Fat of the Land" 564
"Maria Concepcion" 581
"Blood-Burning Moon" 596
"Death in the Woods" 603
"A Start in Life" 612
"Winter Dreams" 624
"Hills Like White Elephants" 641
"A Summer Tragedy" 645
"The Chrysanthemums" 653
"The Secret Life of Walter Mirty" 662
"Petrified Man" 666
"Barn Burning" 676
"The Legend of Miss Sasagawara" 691
"The River" 703
"Help Her to Believe" ["I Stand Here Ironing"] 717
"Defender of the Faith" 723
"Sonny's Blues" 747
The Contemporary Expansion of the Genre 773
Introduction 773
"Views of My Father Weeping" 782
"Everyday Use" 790
"Storyteller" 798
"Railroad Standard Time" 811
"Killings" 816
"Shiloh" 831
"Red Clowns" 843
"The Red Convertible" 844
"Columbus in Chains" 852
"Hiding" 859
"Four Directions" 869
"Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" 883
"Open Arms" 898
"Nada" 908
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" 916
"Morse Code" 922
"Who's Irish?" 941
"The Princess of Nebraska" 950
List of Sources 965
Selected Books for the Study of the American Short Story 969
Credits 971
Index of Authors and Titles 973
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