The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story is written by Michael J. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009292854 (ISBN 10) and 9781009292856 (ISBN 13).

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 to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.