American short-story writers before 1880 [electronic resource] / Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant, editors.

Contributor Grant, William E, editor.

Imprint:Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1988.

Description1 online resource.

Note:Thomas Bailey Adrich (1836-1907) - William Austin (`1778-1841) - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) - George Washington Cable (1844-1925) - Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) - Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) - Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) - Philander Deming (1829-1915) - Alice French (Octave Thanet) (1850-1934) - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) - James Hall (1793-1868) - Bret Harte (1836-1902- ) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) - Washington Irving (1783-1859 ) - Henry James (1843-1916) - Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) - Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822-1898) - Caroline M. Kirkland (1801-1864) - Augustus Baldwin Longstsreet (1790-1870) - Herman Melville (1819-1891) - Mary N. Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) (1850-1922) - Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) - Sara Payson Willis Parton (Fanny Fern) (1811-1872) - James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) - Albert Pike (1809-1891) - Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) - Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) - Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) - Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902)-Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - Maurice Thompson (1844-1901) - Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) - Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894).

Note:Focuses on those authors who began their careers before 1880 against the background of the early American republic, characterized by the hardships of settlement life, the brutalizing effects of the Revolutionary War, and the repressiveness of Puritanism.

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