slave narrative: 68, 73–74
189–90
Sloane, David E. E.: 78–90
Straub, Peter: 422
Slosson, Annie Trumbull: 91
supernatural fi ction: 408–22
Smith, Horace: Zillah: A Tale of the Holy
Swift, Jonathan: 78
City, 24–25
Smith, Sydney: 4
Taggard, Genevieve: 265
Snelling, William Joseph: 14
Taine, Hippolyte: 171, 175
Sophocles: 370
Tan, Amy: 221, 422, 477; “Four
Sorrentino, Paul: 135–51
Directions,” 221; The Joy Luck Club, 221;
Southern Literary Messenger: 26
“Rules of the Game,” 221
Southern Review: 277
Taylor, Frederick Winslow: 183, 197–98;
Southwestern humor: 78–80, 83–84
The Principles of Scientifi c Management, 183;
Spanish-American War: 144, 196
197–98
Spanish Civil War: 238
Taylor, Peter: 256
Spencer, Herbert: 174
Temperance: 188–91
Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene, 51
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Idylls of the King, 25
Spofford, Harriet Prescott: 12–13; “The
Thackeray, William: Vanity Fair, 78
Amber Gods,” 12; “Circumstance,” 13;
Thaxter, Celia: 91, 391–401, 404–05;
“Her Story,” 13; “In the Cellar,” 13
Among the Isles of Shoals, 393–95; An
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: 188, 192
Island Garden, 395; “Spray Sprite,” 401,
Stein, Gertrude: 225, 226, 239, 297, 303,
404; Stories and Poems for Children, 398
432; The Making of Americans, 226; Three
Thompson, William T.: “The Coon Hunt;
Lives, 226, 303
or, a Fency Country,” 80
Steinbeck, John: 176, 218, 241; “The
Thoreau, Henry David: “Walking,” 391
Chrysanthemums,” 218; The Grapes of
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs: “The Big Bear of
Wrath, 218; “The Harness,” 218; The
Arkansas,” 14, 80, 88
Pastures of Heaven, 218; “The Red Pony,”
Tolstoy, Leo: 329, 341
218
Toomer, Jean: “Blood Burning Moon,” 221,
Stern, Steve: Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven,
471; Cane, 221, 304, 471
460; “Tale of a Kite,” 460; The Wedding
Trambley, Estela Portillo: “If It Weren’t for
Jester, 460
the Honeysuckle . . . ,” 115–16
Sterne, Laurence: Life and Adventures of
Transcendentalism: 53, 173, 329
Tristram Shandy, Esq., 78
Transition: 257, 264–65, 297
Stockton, Frank: The Bee Man of Orn, 15;
Tuhkanen, Mikko: 316–27
“The Lady or the Tiger,” 15
Turgenev, Ivan: “A Sportsman’s Sketches,”
Stollman, Aryeh Lev: “The Adornment of
234
Days,” 460; The Dialogues of Time and
Twain, Mark: 5, 14–17, 78–89, 92, 149,
Entropy, 460; “Die Grosse Liebe,” 460;
173, 176, 182, 397, 432; Adventures of
“Mr. Mitochondria,” 460
Huckleberry Finn, 5, 84, 92, 149, 173,
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: 188, 418; “The
182; “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Coral Ring,” 189; The Mayfl ower, 14, 91;
Calaveras County,” 16, 86–88; “The
The Minister’s Wooing, 91; “A New
Golden Arm,” 85; “How to Tell a Story,”
England Sketch,” 91; Oldtown Folks, 14,
85; The Innocents Abroad, 86; “King
91; The Pearl of Orr’s Island, 91; Sam
Leopold’s Soliloquy,” 85; Personal
Lawson’s Old Town Fireside Tales, 14; “The
Recollections of Joan of Arc, 84; Roughing It,
Index
517
80; “Scotty Biggs and the Parson,” 88;
361; “Guilt-Gems,” 356–57; “The Gun
“To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” 95;
Shop,” 356; “The Happiest I’ve Been,”
“A True Story, Repeated Word for Word
348; “Harv Is Plowing Now,” 352; A
as I Heard It,” 88–89
Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects, 361;
Tyler, Elisina: 118
“The Hermit,” 352; “The Hillies,” 354;
“His Oeuvre,” 362–63; “The Holy Land,”
Upadhyay, Mary Samrat: 476
357–58; “Home,” 346; Hugging the Shore,
Updike, John: “A & P,” 350, 364; The
358; “The Ideal Village,” 359–60; “In
Afterlife and Other Stories, 360; Americana,
Football Season,” 351; In the Beauty of the
364; Assorted Prose, 351; “At War with
Lilies, 361; “The Invention of the Horse
My Skin,” 357; “Atlantis,” 357; “The
Collar,” 353; Just Looking: Essays on Art,
Astronomer,” 349; Bech: A Book, 352–53;
360; “Leaves,” 352; Licks of Love, 363;
Bech at Bay, 345; Bech at Bay: A Quasi
“Lunch Hour,” 363; “Made in Heaven,”
Novel, 361; “Bech in Czech,” 362; Bech is
359; The Magic Flute, 351; “Married
Back, 357; “Bech Enters Heaven,” 353;
Life,” 364; Marry Me: A Romance, 354;
Bech Wed, 358; “Believers,” 356; “The
Midpoint and Other Poems, 352; A Month of
Blessed Man of Boston, My
Sundays, 354; More Matter, 363; “More
Grandmother’s Thimble, and Fanning
Stately Mansions,” 359; Museums and
Island,” 350; Bottom’s Dream, 352; Brazil,
Women, 353–54; The Music School,
360; Buchanan Dying, 354; “The
351–53; “My Father on the Verge of
Bulgarian Poetess,” 353; “The Carol
Disgrace,” 363; Odd Jobs, 360; On the
Sing,” 354; The Carpentered Hen and Other
Farm, 351; Olinger Stories: A Selection, 347,
Tame Creatures, 346; “The Cats,” 363; The
351, 364; “The Orphaned Swimming
Centaur, 347, 354, 363; A Child’s
Pool,” 354; “Other Modes,” 354; “Out in
Calendar, 351; “The Christian
the World,” 364; “Packed Dirt,
Roommates,” 352; Collected Poems
Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded
1953–1993, 360; “Commercial,” 356;
Car,” 350; “The Persistence of Desire,”
The Complete Henry Bech, 362;
350; “Picked-Up Pieces,” 354; “Pigeon
“Conjunction,” 361; “A Constellation of
Feathers,” 363; Pigeon Feathers, 346,
Events,” 359; The Coup, 355; Couples,
348–49; “Playing with Dynamite,” 360;
352; “Daughter, Last Glimpses,” 356;
“Poker Night,” 359; The Poorhouse Fair,
“Dentistry and Doubt,” 348; “A
346–47; The Predator, 346; Problems,
Dogwood Tree: A Boyhood,” 345–46;
355–56; Rabbit at Rest, 360; Rabbit is
“Domestic Life in America,” 356; The
Rich, 357; Rabbit Redux, 353; “Rabbit
Early Stories, 1953–1975, 364; “The Egg
Remembered,” 363; Rabbit Run, 348;
Race,” 355, 357; Enchantment, 346, Facing
Roger’s Version, 358; “The Roommate,”
Nature, 358; “
Falling Asleep Up North,”
352; The Same Door, 347–48; 359–60;
361; “Family Life,” 364; “The Family
“The Sea’s Green Sameness,” 354; Seek My
Meadow,” 352; “Far Out,” 364; “Farrell’s
Face, 364; Self-Consciousness, 357, 360; “A
Caddy,” 361; “Flight,” 350; “Four Sides
Sense of Shelter,” 350; “Separating,” 356;
of One Story,” 352; “Friends from
“The Single Life,” 364; “Slippage,” 359;
Philadelphia,” 346–48, 350–51; “From
“The Slump,” 354; “Snowing in
the Journal of a Leper,” 357; “George and
Greenwich Village,” 348; “Solitaire,”
Vivian,” 361; Gertrude and Claudius, 363;
354; “Son,” 356; “Still Life,” 346;
“Gesturing,” 356; “A Gift from the
“Sublimating,” 355; “Tarbox Tales,” 364;
City,” 347–48; “Giving Blood,” 352;
Telephone Pole and Other Poems, 351;
Golf Dreams, 361; “Grandparenting,”
“Three Illuminations of an American
518
Index
Updike, John ( cont’d)
Waters, Mary Yukari: The Laws of Evening,
Author,” 357; “Tomorrow and Tomorrow
476
and So Forth,” 347; Too Far to Go,
Weekes, Karen: 380–88
354–55; Tossing and Turning, 355;
Weems, Parson: 3
“Toward Evening,” 347–48; “Toward the
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew: 408–24
End of Time,” 361; “Tristan’s Law,” 356;
Weld, Theodore: 191
“Trust Me,” 358–59; Trust Me, 358–60;
Wells, Carolyn: “The Technique of the
“Twin Beds in Rome,” 355; “The Two
Detective Story,” 430
Iseults,” 364; “Under the Microscope,”
Wells, H. G.: 120
354; Villages, 364; “The Wallet,” 359;
Welty, Eudora: “Beautiful Ohio,” 286; The
“Walter Briggs,” 349; “When Everyone
Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories,
Was Pregnant,” 353–54; “White on
279, 284; “The Burning,” 284; “Circe,”
White,” 358; “Wife-Wooing,” 349; The
288; “A Curtain of Green,” 277–79,
Witches of Eastwick, 358; “The Witness,”
290–92; Delta Wedding, 278; “First
354; “The Women Who Got Away,”
Love,” 281–82, 288; “Flowers for
363; “You’ll Never Know Dear, How
Marjorie,” 279–81; The Golden Apples,
Much I Love You,” 350
278, 280–82, 286, 288–89, 292, 486;
“The Key,” 288; “Lily Daw and the
Vaca, Fabiola Cabeza de: 381
Three Ladies,” 288; “Losing Battles,”
Vapnyar, Lara: “Love Lessons,” 462; “A
288; “Music from Spain,” 287–92; “No
Question for Vera,” 462; There Are Jews in
Place for You, My Love,” 279; “Old Mr.
My House, 461
Marblehall,” 288–89; One Writer’s
Verplank, Julian: 79
Beginnings, 278, 291; The Optimist’s
Vietnam War: 146, 223, 444
Daughter, 278; “Petrifi ed Man,” 222,
Villa, José Garcia: “The Fence,” 440, 472;
288; “Place in Fiction,” 279; The Ponder
Footnote to Youth, 440; “Untitled Story,”
Heart, 278, 288; “Powerhouse,” 288;
472
The Robber Bridegroom, 278; “Shower
Viramontes, Helena María: “The Cariboo
of Gold,” 288; “Sir Rabbit,” 487–88;
Café,” 222; The Moths and Other Stories,
“A Still Moment,” 277; “The
222; Paris Rats in E. L. A. , 222
Wanderers,” 286, 487–88; “The Whole
Virginia Quarterly Review: 261, 267
World Knows,” 290; The Wide Net,
Vonnegut, Kurt: 89
281; “The Winds,” 281–87; “Why I
Live at the P. O.,” 288; “Words into
Walker, Alice: “The Abortion,” 474; The
Fiction,” 292
Color Purple, 221; “Everyday Use,” 221;
West, Nathanial: Day of the Locust, 254
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women,
Weston, Ruth D.: 277–94
474; You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down,
Wharton, Edith, 16, 18, 118–131, 408,
474
418, 432; “After Holbein,” 127;
Walrond, Eric: 471
“Afterward,” 219, 420 421; The Age of
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Men, Women,
Innocence, 118, 121–123, 127, 130; “All
and Ghosts, 15; Sealed Orders, 15; The
Souls,” 127–129; “The Angel at the
Gates Ajar, 121
Grave,” 122, 124; “April Showers,” 121;
Warren, Robert Penn: “The Love and
“Autre Temps...,” 130; A Backward
Separateness in Miss Welty,” 277
Glance, 118; “Bewitched,” 129; “A Bottle
Watanabe, Sylvia: 476
of Perrier,” 127; Certain People, 127;
Watanna, Onoto [Winnifred Eaton]: “A
“Charm Incorporated,” 127; Collected
Half-Caste,” 438–39
Stories, 119; “Confession,” 123, 131;
Index
519
“Copy: A Dialogue,” 121; “A Coward,”
Winthrop, John: 482
121; Crucial Instances, 121; The Custom of
Wister, Owen: 17
the Country, 118, 121; “The Daunt
Wong, Shawn: 474
Diana,” 125; The Descent of Man, and
Woolf, Virginia: 296–97, 304
Other Stories, 125; “The Dilettante,” 125;
Woolrich, Cornell: 426
“The Duchess at Prayer,” 122–124; Ethan
Woolson, Constance Fenimore: 17
Frome, 118, 121; “Expiation,” 121; “The
World War I: 176, 224, 470
Eyes,” 122, 128–129; “Friends,” 121;
World War II: 222, 335, 441, 470, 472,
“The Fullness of Life,” 121; Ghosts, 119,
475–76
127; The Greater Inclination, 121; “Her
Wright, Richard: 316–24; “Almo’ a Man,”
Son,” 131; Here and Beyond, 127; The
472; American Hunger, 321–22; “Big Boy
Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other
Leaves Home,” 218; Black Boy, 317–318;
Stories, 125; “The House of the Dead
“Blueprint for Negro Writing,” 316;
Hand,” 123; The House of Mirth, 118;
“Bright and the Morning Star,” 318–19,
Human Nature, 127; “The Introducers,”
472; “Down by the Riverside,” 218; “The
130; “Kerfol,” 123, 420; “The Lady’s
Ethics of Living Jim Crow,” 472; “Fire
Maid’s Bell,” 128, 219; “The Lamp of
and Cloud,” 472; “Long Black Son,” 218;
Psyche,” 130; “The Letters,” 125, 127;
“Man, God Ain’t Like That . . . ,” 323;
“The Line of the Least Resistance,” 127;
“The Man Who Lived Underground,”
“Mr. Jones,” 127–128; “Mrs. Manstey’s
219, 320; “The Man Who Was Almost a
View,” 120, 129, 219; “The Mission of
Man,” 319–20, 472; “The Man Who
Jane,” 125; The Mother’
s Recompense, 130;
Killed a Shadow,” 322; “The Man Who
“The Moving Finger,” 121–22; The Old
Went to Chicago,” 321–22; Native Son,
Maid, 127, 130; “The Other Two,”
218, 316, 319–20, 322–24, 472; The
118–19, 125–27, 219; “The Pelican,”
Outsider, 320; Uncle Tom’s Children, 218
131; “Permanent Wave,” 127, 130;
“Pomegranate Seed,” 128, 131, 420; “The
Xu, Wenying: 436–49
Portrait,” 121–22; “The Potboiler,” 125;
“The Recovery,” 121; “The Reckoning,”
Yamada, Mitsuye, 476
125; The Reef, 127; “The Rembrandt,”
Yamamoto, Hisaye: 439–40, 475; Seventeen
121–22; “Roman Fever,” 118, 127, 128,
Syllables, 222, 440; “The Legend of Miss
219; “The Seed of the Faith,” 127; “Souls
Sasagawara,” 222, 439
Belated,” 122–23, 130; “The Triumph of
Yeats, William Butler: 487
Life,” 420; “The Valley of Childish
Yezierska, Anzia: 18, 218, 451–52, 471; “A
Things,” 121; The Valley of Decision, 120;
Chair in Heaven,” 220; “Children of
“The Verdict,” 122, 125; “The World
Loneliness,” 220; “The Fat of the Land,”
Over,” 127, 219; The Writing of Fiction,”
218, 220, 471; Hungry Hearts, 451–52,
119; “Xingu,” 127, 219; Xingu and Other
471; “My Own People,” 218; “Soap and
Stories, 127; “The Young Gentleman,”
Water,” 452; “Wild Winter Love,” 220
129
Whittier, John Greenleaf: 395, 397
Zitkala-Sa: 202, 470; “The Soft-Hearted
Williams, Roger: 56
Sioux,” 204, 470; “A Warrior’s
Williams, William Carlos: “The Red
Daughter,” 204–05
Wheelbarrow,” 297
Zola, Émile: 171–72, 175–76, 180;
Willis, N. P.: 79
Rougon-Macquart series, 175; Thérèse
Winter, Molly Crumpton: 466–81
Raquin, 172–73, 182
Document Outline
A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Nineteenth Century 1: The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story
2: Poe and the American Short Story
3: A Guide to Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
4: Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story
5: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a “New” America
6: Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story
7: New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation
8: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story
9: The Short Stories of Edith Wharton
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