THE SHORT STORY

American Literature

General Histories

Among the best short accounts are A History of American Literature, by Fred Lewis Pattee (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1896); American Literature, by Alphonso G. Newcomer (Scott, Foresman & Co., 1901); A History of American Literature, 1607-1865, by William Peterfield Trent (D. Appleton & Co., 1903); A Reader's History of American Literature, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Henry W. Boynton (the Houghton Mifflin Co., 1903); A History of Literature in America, by Barrett Wendell and Chester N. Greenough (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904); A Manual of American Literature, edited by Theodore Stanton (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909); Die Amerikanische Literatur, by C. Alphonso Smith (Lemcke & Buechner, 1911); A History of American Literature, by William B. Cairns (Oxford University Press, 1912); and A Short History of American Literature, edited by William Peterfield Trent, Etc. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922).

Two notable longer histories are Charles F. Richardson's American Literature, 1607-1885 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887-1889; two volumes); and Barrett Wendell's A Literary History of America (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900). Two works by Moses Coit Tyler covering special periods are A History of American Literature during the Colonial Period, 1607-1765 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878; two volumes), and his The Literary History of the American Revolution, 17631783 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897; two volumes); another is Lorenzo Sears's American Literature in the Colonial and National Periods (Little, Brown & Co., 1902). A History of Southern Literature, by Carl Holliday (the Neale Publishing Co., 1906), treats the literature of the South with some amplitude, while Professor Fred Lewis Pattee's A History of American Literature Since 1870 (the Century Co., 1915) is a treatment in considerable detail of the chief writers from the Civil War nearly down to date. A useful covering of the recent and present field is Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines, by John M. Manly and Edith Rickert (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922).

The most uptodate and thorough treatment of the entire field is to be found in the four-volume Cambridge History of American Literature (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917-1918-1921-1922), edited by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, and Carl Van Doren. The chapters are written by specialists, but in a way to interest the general reader. A one-volume abridgment has been issued as A Short History of American Literature (1922).

Volumes of Essays

The Literati, by Edgar Allan Poe (Godey's Lady's Book, May-Oct., 1846; republished in Volume III, 1850, of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 21-482; J. S. Redfield, 1850-1856; republished in Volume VIII of the StedmanWoodberry edition of Poe, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894-95; revised edition, pp. 3-390, 1914). This and the work by Hart which follows are valuable for their sketches of authors now obscure, about whom there is little information available. Female Prose Writers of America, by John Seely Hart (E. H. Butler & Co., 1851). Short Studies of American Authors, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Lee & Shepard, 1879).

Initial Studies in American Letters, by Henry Augustin Beers (the Chautauqua Press, 1892; first published as An Outline Sketch of American Literature, 1887). American Writers of Today, by Henry Clay Vedder (Silver, Burdett & Co., 1894). Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies, by William Malone Baskervill (Publication House, Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1897). Another book written by former pupils of Prof. Baskervill appeared as Volume II, in 1903. America in Literature, by George Edward Woodberry (Harper and Bros., 1903). Literary Leaders of America, by Richard Burton (Lothrop Publishing Co., 1904). American Prose Masters, by William C. Brownell (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909). Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Frederick Clarke Prescott (Henry Holt & Co., 1909).

Social Historians, by Harry Aubrey Toulmin (Richard G. Badger, 1911). Great American Writers, by William Peterfield Trent and John Erskine (Henry Holt & Co., 1912).

The Spirit of American Literature, by John Albert Macy (The Modern Library; Boni & Liveright, 1913).

Sidelights on American Literature, by Fred Lewis Pattee (the Century Co., 1922).

American Fiction

(See also Volumes of Essays, above. For works dealing with the American Short Story only, see, Historical and Critical, under The American Short Story, pp. 12-13.) American Novel-Writing, by Edgar Allan Poe (Literary Examiner and Western Monthly Review, August, 1839; partly republished in Poe's review of Wilmer's Quacks of Helicon, Graham's Magazine, August, 1841, which is republished in Volume IV, 1856, of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 409-19; J. S. Redfield, 1850-1856; and in Volume VIII of the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894-95; revised edition, pp. 306-22, 1914).

Americanism in Fiction, by Julian Hawthorne (Chapter III of his Confessions and Criticisms, Ticknor and Co., 1886).

The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley, by William Henry Venable (Robert Clarke Co., 1891).

Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Harper and Bros., 1891). The American Historical Novel, by Paul Leicester Ford (The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1897).

Early American Fiction, 1774-1830, by Oscar Wegelin (published by the author, 1902; revised edition, 1913).

The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays, by Frank Norris (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903).

The Early American Novel, by Lillie D. Loshe (Columbia University Press, 1907). The Dime Novel in American Literature, by Charles M. Harvey (The Atlantic Monthly, July, 1907, pp. 37-45).

The Novelists, by Clark S. Northup (in A Manual of American Literature, edited by Theodore Stanton; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909).

Introduction to History of Southern Fiction, by Edwin Mims (in The South in the Building of the Nation, edited by Julian A. C. Chandler, Etc., Volume VIII; the Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909; twelve volumes).

Leading American Novelists, by John Erskine (Henry Holt & Co., 1910). Some American Story-Tellers, by Frederic T. Cooper (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1911). Fiction I: Brown, Cooper, by Carl Van Doren (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume I, 1917, pp. 284-306; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917-22 ur volumes).

Fiction II: Contemporaries of Cooper, by Carl Van Doren (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume I, pp. 307-25; 1917).

Early Humorists, by Will D. Howe (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume II, pp. 148-59; 1918).

Dialect Writers, by C. Alphonso Smith (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume II, pp. 347-66; 1918).

Books for Children, by Algernon Tassin (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume II, pp. 396-409; 1918).

Minor Humorists, by George Frisbie Whicher (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume III, pp. 21–30; 1921).

The Later Novel: Howells, by Carl Van Doren (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume III, pp. 66-95; 1921).

The American Novel, by Carl Van Doren (the Macmillan Co., 1921).

The Young Romantics: an Interpretative Survey of Recent Fiction, by Henry Seidel Canby (The Century Magazine, February, 1922; republished in his Definitions; Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922).

Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920, by Carl Van Doren (the Macmillan Co., 1922).

The New Fiction, by Wilbur L. Cross (The Yale Review, April, 1922).

The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction (The New Republic, April 12, 1922; as a book, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1923). A symposium by thirteen authors.

American Periodical Development

Periodical Literature, by Edward L. Burlingame (in The American Cyclopædia, Volume XIII, pp. 294–302; D. Appleton & Co., 1873-76).

Nathaniel Parker Willis, by Henry Augustin Beers, pp. 71-106 (American Men of Letters series; the Houghton Mifflin Co., 1885).

The Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors, 1741-1850, by Albert Henry Smyth (R. M. Lindsay, 1892).

On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833, with Especial Reference to Periodicals, by William B. Cairns (University of Wisconsin, 1898). The Relation of Periodical to General Literature, by Henry Mills Alden (Part II of his Magazine Writing and the New Literature; Harper & Bros., 1908).

Southern Magazines, by Edwin Mims (Chapter XXI, pp. 437-69, of Volume VII of The South in the Building of the Nation, edited by Julian A. C. Chandler, Etc.; the Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909; twelve volumes).

The Periodicals, by Clark S. Northup (in A Manual of American Literature, edited by Theodore Stanton (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909).

Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, by Franklin W. Scott (Revised and enlarged edition; Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume VI, 1910).

Literary Annuals and Gift-Books: a Bibliography with a Descriptive Introduction, by Frederick Winthrop Faxon (the Boston Book Co., 1912).

The Magazine in America, by Algernon Tassin (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916; chiefly republished from The Bookman, February, and April-December, 1915). Magazines and Annuals, by William B. Cairns (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume II, 1918; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917-22; four volumes).

Magazines, by William B. Cairns (in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume III; 1921).

The Rise of the Magazine, 1700-1920, by Alexander Jessup (Chapter VI of his The American Short Story; in preparation).

General Anthologies

(Collections are listed with special reference to American fiction. For collections containing American short stories only, see The American Short Story, Collections, pp. 13–14.) The Prose Writers of America, by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (Carey & Hart, 1846). The Cyclopædia of American Literature .. by Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck (William Rutter & Co., 1855-1866; edition revised by M. Laird Simons, 1875). Two volumes.

Little Classics, edited by Rossiter Johnson (the Houghton Mifflin Co., 1875-80). Eighteen Volumes.

A Century of American Literature, by Henry Augustin Beers (the Houghton Mifflin Co., 1878).

A Library of American Literature, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen M. Hutchinson (Charles L. Webster & Co., 1888-90). Eleven volumes.

A Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, edited by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle and George R. Warner (R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, 1896-99; thirty-one volumes. A revised edition in thirty volumes was published in 1917, as The Warner Library, edited by John W. Cunliffe and Ashley H. Thorndike; Warner Library Co.).

Library of Southern Literature, edited by Edwin A. Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris and Charles W. Kent (the Martin and Hoyt Co., 1907-09; sixteen volumes. Revised edition in seventeen volumes, edited by Edwin A. Alderman, C. Alphonso Smith, and John Calvin Metcalf; the Martin and Hoyt Co., 1922).

The South in the Building of the Nation, edited by Julian A. C. Chandler, Etc., Volume V (the Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909). Twelve volumes. Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, edited by Fred Lewis Pattee (the Century Co., 1919). Contains thirty-two short stories, in addition to its other selections.

Bibliographies and Indexes

(For bibliographies and indexes of short stories only, see under that heading, p. 12; for those of American short stories only, p. 15.)

First Editions of American Authors, by Herbert S. Stone (Stone & Kimball, 1893). Chronological Outlines of American Literature, by Selden L. Whitcomb (the Macmillan Co., 1894).

Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing with the History of North America, by William McCrillis Griswold (W. M. Griswold, 1895).

American Authors, 1795-1895, by Patrick K. Foley (printed for subscribers, 1897). A Dictionary of American Authors, by Oscar Fay Adams (the Houghton Mifflin Co., 1897; revised edition, 1905).

A Guide to the Best Fiction in English, by Ernest A. Baker (Routledge, 1903). American Bibliography: a Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from the Genesis of Printing in 1639 Down to and Including the Year 1820, by Charles Evans (the Blakely Press, 1903-1914; completed through 1792). Eight volumes. A Guide to the Best Historical Fiction, by Ernest A. Baker (the Macmillan Co., 1914; first published as History in Fiction, 1907).

Southern Fiction Prior to 1800; an Attempt at a Firsthand Bibliography, by James Gibson Johnson (the Michie Co., Charlottesville, Va., 1909).

Bibliographies in The Cambridge History of American Literature (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917-1918-1921-1922; four volumes).

The Short Story

THE WORLD'S SHORT STORIES

Historical and Critical

(Writings preceded by an asterisk (*) may also be consulted with profit as if listed under Technique.)

*Hawthorne's “Tales", by Edgar Allan Poe (Graham's Magazine, April and May, 1842; republished in Volume III, 1850, of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 188-202; J. S. Redfield, 1850-1856; republished in Volume VII of the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894-95; revised edition, pp. 19-38, 1914).

*The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe (Graham's Magazine, April, 1846; republished in Volume II, 1850, of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 259-70; J. S. Redfield, 1850-1856; republished in Volume VI of the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894-95; revised edition, pp. 36-56, 1914).

*Novelle oder Roman . by Friedrich Spielhagen (L. Staackmann, 1876; republished in Beiträge zur Theorie und Technik des Romans, Leipzig, 1883).

The Philosophy of the Short Story, by Brander Matthews (as Short Stories in The Saturday Review, July 5, 1884, pp. 32-34; republished in his Pen and Ink; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888; as a volume, Longmans, Green & Co., 1901).

The Art of Fiction, by Henry James (Longman's Magazine, Sept., 1884; republished in his Partial Portraits; the Macmillan Co., 1888).

*The Short Story, by Frederick Wedmore (The Nineteenth Century, March, 1898; republished in The Living Age, May 7, 1898; in his On Books and Arts, Hodder & Stoughton, 1899).

The Rise of the Short Story, by Bret Harte (The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1899). *The Short Story, by Henry Seidel Canby (Yale Studies in English, Henry Holt & Co., 1902; republished with revision as the Introduction to The Book of the Short Story, edited by Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby; D. Appleton & Co., 1903).

The Evolution of the Short Story, and The Modern Short Story, by William J. and Coningsby W. Dawson (Introductions to their The Great English Short-Story Writers, Harper & Bros., 1910; two volumes).

A Study of the Short Story, by Henry Seidel Canby (Henry Holt & Co., 1913). The Short Story in English, by Hugh Walker (Introduction to Selected English Short Stories, Nineteenth Century, selected by H. S. Milford; The World's Classics series, Oxford University Press, 1914).

The Short Story, by Walter Morris Hart (Types of English Literature series, edited by William Allan Neilson: the Houghton Mifflin Co.; in preparation).

Technique

(Consult also the works preceded by an asterisk (*) under Historical and Critical, above.) Preface, by Frederic Beecher Perkins, to his Devil-Puzzlers, and Other Studies (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877).

Vailima Letters, by Robert Louis Stevenson, pp. 73-74; Letter X, Sunday, Sept. (?), 1891 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895).