Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi Part I: The Nineteenth Century 1 1 The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story 3 Alfred Bendixen 2 Poe and the American Short Story 20 Benjamin F. Fisher 3 A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" 35 Steven T. Ryan 4 Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story 50 Alfred Bendixen 5 Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America 68 Charles Duncan 6 Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story 78 David E. E. Sloane 7 New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation 91 Josephine Donovan 8 Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story 105 Martha J. Cutter 9 The Short Stories of Edith Wharton 118 Donna Campbell Part II: The Transition into the New Century 133 10 The Short Stories of Stephen Crane 135 Paul Sorrentino 11 Kate Chopin 152 Charlotte Rich 12 Frank Norris and Jack London 171 Jeanne Campbell Reesman 13 From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change 187 Andrew J. Furer Part III: The Twentieth Century 215 14 The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity 217 James Nagel 15 The Hemingway Story 224 George Monteiro 16 William Faulkner's Short Stories 244 Hugh Ruppersburg 17 Katherine Anne Porter 256 Ruth M.

Alvarez 18 Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice 277 Ruth D. Weston 19 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style 295 Kirk Curnutt 20 "The Look of the World": Richard Wright on Perspective 316 Mikko Tuhkanen 21 Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow 328 Gloria L. Cronin 22 John Updike 345 Robert M. Luscher 23 Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century 366 Sandra Lee Kleppe 24 Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls 380 Karen Weekes Part IV: Expansive Considerations 389 25 Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories 391 Leah B. Glasser 26 The American Ghost Story 408 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 27 The Detective Story 425 Catherine Ross Nickerson 28 The Asian American Short Story 436 Wenying Xu 29 The Jewish American Story 450 Andrew Furman 30 The Multiethnic American Short Story 466 Molly Crumpton Winter 31 "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story Cycle 482 Jeff Birkenstein Index 502.