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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)
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 when compared with the creations of his successor, O. Henry. Anot
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)
Abbe, 201 n. Read, Thomas Buchanan, 279, 282, 285, 286 Read, W. H., 365 Reade, Charles, 371 Realf, Richard, 286 Rebel Rhymes and rhapsodies, 298 Red old Hills of Georgia, the, 290 Reaper and the flowers, the, 35 Records of a School, 20 Reed, Joseph, 118 Reeve, Judge, Tapping, 215 Regency, The, 83 Register (Albany), 183 Reid, Thos., 197 Relations des Jesuits, 3 Religious Souvenir, the, 175 Reliques of ancient English poetry, 3 Remarkable Wreck of the Thomas Hyke, The, 386 Remember Me, the, 175 Remember the Maine, 331 Reminiscences of the Civil War, 318 Repetition and parallelism in English verse, 66 n. Repplier, Agnes, 172 Republican (Springfield), 190, 191 264 n. Requier, A. J., 306, 309 Resignation, 39 Reveille The (The Drum), 281 Rhetoric (Blair), 124 Rhode Island to the South, 286 Rhodes, J. F., 193 Richardson, Samuel, 340, 391 Richmond Enquirer, the, 183 Riley, James Whitcomb, 363, 409 Rill from th