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The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865 (Hardcover)
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The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865 (Hardcover)
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This book argues that to truly understand the short story form, one
mustlook at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply
politicizedworld of 19th-century transatlantic theater and
performance culture. Byresurrecting long-neglected theatrical
influences on representative worksof short fiction, Michael J.
Collins demonstrates that it was the unrulyculture of the stage
that first energized this most significant of Americanart forms.
Whether it was Washington Irving's first job as theatercritic,
Melville's politically controversial love of British drama,
Alcott'sthwarted dreams of stage stardom, Poe and Lippard's
dramatizations ofpeculiarly bloodthirsty fraternity hazings, or
Hawthorne's fascination withautomata, theater was a key imaginative
site for the major pioneers of theAmerican short story. The book
shows how perspectives from theater studies, anthropology,and
performance studies can enrich readings of the short story
form.Moving beyond arbitrary distinctions between performance and
text,it suggests that this literature had a social life and was
engaged withquestions of circumatlantic and transnational culture.
It suggests thatthe short story itself was never conceived as a
nationalist literary form,but worked by mobilizing cosmopolitan
connections and meanings. Inso doing, the book resurrects a
neglected history of American Federalismand its connections to
British literary forms.
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