This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century ...

2 Whatever its universal qualities, the good literature of every nation expresses the national character. This is as true of American literature as of any other. However, in the beginning American ...

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Dauber particularly excels at unearthing the work of those now-forgotten writers whose short stories spooked American magazine readers before other forms of popular entertainment came along.