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  • The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (LOA #394) (Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century)

The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (LOA #394) (Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century)

by John Stauffer (Editor) Format: Hardcover
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The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary form

A diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers

As much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of styles and subjects that has still not been fully appreciated. Diverse, wide-ranging, and unprecedented in its scope, The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century gathers more than one hundred stories by fifty different writers.

This first volume of Library of America’s two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American short fiction tracks the development of the American short story from Charles Brockden Brown’s fragments and Washington Irving’s sketches to Poe’s gothic tales of horror to Mark Twain’s humorous stories. Represented here by generous selections are all the major figures—Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain—as well as Rose Terry Cooke, also a major writer, restored to a place of prominence in this anthology with three unforgettable masterpieces.

Among the many unexpected writers in this volume are: William Austin, so crucial to the development of Hawthorne and Poe; the antebellum Black writer and physician James McCune Smith, whose sketches in his “Heads of the Colored People” series lampooned the pseudoscientific racism of phrenology ; Lucretia Hale, the author of the feminist fantasy “The Queen of the Red Chessman,” perhaps the greatest one-hit wonder of the mid-nineteenth century; Francis Parkman, whose early magazine fiction remains unknown today even to many scholars; and Fitz-James O’Brien, the author of such unnerving horror stories as “The Lost Room” and “What Was It?,” whose true themes and concerns twenty-first century readers, accustomed to reading gay fiction, will not miss.

Unrivaled in its range and textual authority, the anthology includes biographies of each writer, a chronology of writers and the American short story from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes.
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John Stauffer is the Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including the national bestseller GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 17, 2026
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 817 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598538209
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598538205
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.18 x 1.16 x 8.18 inches
  • Book 1 of 2 ‏ : ‎ Library of America The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century
  • Best Sellers Rank: #111,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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