American short stories : $b Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin
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American short stories : $b Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin
American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories, American
=Cairns, William B.=, _On the Development of American Literature
from 1815 to 1833_, with especial reference to periodicals;
Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Philology and
Literature Series, volume i, no. 1, pages 1–87.
=Canby, Henry Seidel=, _The Short Story_; Yale Studies in English,
xii (revised as introduction to _The Book of the Short Story_,
edited by Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby).
=Chassang, A.=, _Histoire du Roman ... dans l’Antiquité Grecque et
Latine_; Paris (2d ed.), 1862.
=Gilbert, E.=, _Le Roman en France pendant le xix^e Siècle_; Paris
(2d ed.), 1896.
=Hart, Walter Morris=, _The Evolution of the Short Story_; address
delivered before the Alumni Association of Haverford College,
June 12, 1901.
=Matthews, Brander=, _The Philosophy of the Short Story_; New
York, 1901. (This, the standard essay on the subject, is now
published separately, with notes and a few striking references.)
=Moland et d’Héricault=, _Nouvelles Françoises en Prose du
xiii^{me} Siècle_; Paris, 1856 (l’Empereur Constant, Amis
et Amile, le Roi Flore et la Belle Jehane, la Comtesse de
Ponthieu, Aucassin et Nicolette; introduction, notes).
=Morris, William=, _Old French Romances done into English by
William Morris_, with introduction by Joseph Jacobs; London,
1896 (translation of the same tales as in the preceding, except
Aucassin and Nicolette).
=Peck, Harry Thurston=, _Trimalchio’s Dinner_ by Petronius Arbiter,
translated from the original Latin, with an introduction and
bibliographical appendix; New York, 1898. (The introduction
discusses prose fiction in Greece and Rome.)
=Perry, Bliss=, _A Study of Prose Fiction_; Boston, 1902.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Donald G. Mitchell, _American Lands and Letters_.
[2] _Literary Papers of William Austin_, Boston, 1890, page 43.
[3] See Prof. William B. Cairns, _On the Development of American
Literature from 1815 to 1833, with especial reference to periodicals_;
Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Philology and Literature
Series, volume i, No. 1.
[4] For a pungent characterisation of the annuals, see Prof. Henry A.
Beers’s life of N. P. Willis (American Men of Letters), pages 77 and
following.
[5] Fromentin (_Un Été dans le Sahara_, page 59; _Une Année dans le
Sahel_, pages 215 and following) lays this down for painting.
[6] Bret Harte, _The Rise of the Short Story_, Cornhill Magazine, July,
1899.
[7] See Cairns, as above, page 64. The influence of the Spectator form
in France appears strikingly in _L’Hermite de la Chaussée d’Antin_, ou
observations sur les mœurs et les usages français au commencement du
xix^{me} siècle, par M. de Jouy, Paris (collective volumes), 1813.
[8] Cross, _Development of the English Novel_, pages 24, 25.
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