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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: the short story (search)
nde and his grace of style, but in whimsicality and unexpectedness and in that subtle art that makes the obviously impossible seem perfectly plausible and commonplace, he surpassed not only him but Edward Everett Hale and all others. After Stockton and The lady or the Tiger? it was realized even by the uncritical that short story writing had become a subtle art and that the master of its subtleties had his reader at his mercy. The best of Stockton's short work is to be found in his Negative Gravity, The Transferred Ghost, The Remarkable Wreck of the Thomas Hyke, and The Late Mrs. Null. It is like nothing else in American literature: everywhere paradox presented with the utmost gravity, everywhere topsy-turviness and anticlimax and the grotesquely unexpected. There is little of substance in it all; it is opera bouffe, amusing, delightful, ephemeral. Even now Stockton is remembered only for The lady or the Tiger? and the present generation considers even that story clumsy work wh
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
springs, 345 My study Windows, 247 My wife and child, 290, 299 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the, 58 Nation, the, 187 National era, the, 47 National Gazette, 181 National Intelligencer, the (1800), 83 National Intelligencer, the (1841), 183 National journal, the, 119 National magazine, the, 161 National ode, 279 Native of Winby, a, 383 Natural History of Selborne, 201 Nature (Emerson), 20 Nature and the supernatural, 213 Neal, Joseph Clay, 152 Negative Gravity, 386 Negro in literature and art, the, 351 n. Negro in Southern literature since the War, The, 351 n. Nelson family, the, 306 Newbery, John, 396 Newell, R. H., 156 New England girlhood, a, 399 New England magazine, the, 19, 165 New England Nun, a, 390 New England Primer, 396 New England review, the, 45 New England's annoyances, 148 New England's Rareties, 149 New England tragedies, the, 37, 39 New essays towards a critical method, 63 n., 6