Great American short stories /

Table of Contents:

Beside you in time : sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American 19th century / by Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.…”
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Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century / by Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.…”
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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / by Gilmore, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…: Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction -- Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Postbellum. Tourgée: margin and center -- James and the monotone of reunion -- Was Twain black? …”

The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / by Gilmore, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…: Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction -- Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Postbellum. Tourgée: margin and center -- James and the monotone of reunion -- Was Twain black? …”
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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / by Gilmore, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…: Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction -- Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Postbellum. Tourgée: margin and center -- James and the monotone of reunion -- Was Twain black? …”
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Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / by Thomas, Brook

Table of Contents: “…Individuals, judges, property -- The pioneers; or the sources of American legal history : a critical tale -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's legal story -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's romance of art -- Wage and chattel slavery -- "Benito Cereno" : Melville's narrative of repression -- A sentimental journey : escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Exploitation at home and at sea -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street -- Contracts and confidence men -- Billy Budd and re-righting legal history -- Measured forms -- Ragged edges.…”

Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / by Thomas, Brook

Table of Contents: “…Individuals, judges, property -- The pioneers; or the sources of American legal history : a critical tale -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's legal story -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's romance of art -- Wage and chattel slavery -- "Benito Cereno" : Melville's narrative of repression -- A sentimental journey : escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Exploitation at home and at sea -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street -- Contracts and confidence men -- Billy Budd and re-righting legal history -- Measured forms -- Ragged edges.…”
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American short fiction : readings and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving ; Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe ; My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville ; The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; The real thing / Henry James ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane ; To build a fire / Jack London ; An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner ; Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter ; Ways and means / Langston Hughes ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud ; A & P / John Updike -- Part two, Matching stories for comparison and independent analysis. …”