William Cullen Bryant wrote short stories? Indeed he did, and this volume collects and evaluates them for the first time. During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan became a key figure in New York City's cir...

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1. Verfasser:	Bryant, William Cullen 1794-1878 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Hartford, VT Antoca 2014
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Short stories, American American fiction / 19th century
Zusammenfassung:	William Cullen Bryant wrote short stories? Indeed he did, and this volume collects and evaluates them for the first time. During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan became a key figure in New York City's circle of fiction writers. His tales compare favorably with those of his contemporary Washington Irving, and his varied experiments in a new genre anticipate future developments by half a century and more. Gado's previous book presented Bryant as a major exponent of American literary nationalism and the prime antecedent of Whitman and Frost; here, he retrieves a body of short fiction from the fringe of oblivion and both shines a light on the neglected decade preceding Poe and Hawthorne and examines Bryant's tales as part of that history
Beschreibung:	Prolegomenon -- Introduction : from poet to story writer -- A Pennsylvanian legend -- A border tradition -- A narrative of some extraordinary circumstances -- Preface to The talisman -- The Legend of the devil's pulpit -- The cascade of Melisngah -- Adventures of the East Indies -- Story of the island of Cuba -- The whirlwind -- The Indian spring -- The marriage blunder -- Glauber-spa -- The skeleton's cave -- Medfield -- Commentary -- Notes
Beschreibung:	VI, 327 S. 23 cm
ISBN:	9781611685688 1611685680 9781611685695 9781611685701