In this Book
- The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University Press of New England
summary
William Cullen Bryant wrote short stories? Indeed he did, and this volume collects and evaluates them for the first time.
During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan became a key figure in New York City's circle of fiction writers. His tales compare favorably with those of his contemporary Washington Irving, and his varied experiments in a new genre anticipate future developments by half a century and more.
Gado’s previous book presented Bryant as a major exponent of American literary nationalism and the prime antecedent of Whitman and Frost; here, he retrieves a body of short fiction from the fringe of oblivion and both shines a light on the neglected decade preceding Poe and Hawthorne and examines Bryant’s tales as part of that history.
"Frank Gado’s first-rate selection of William Cullen Bryant’s poetry and prose and his persuasive essays on Bryant’s contribution to American prosody and culture restore [him] to his rightful place in American literary history as the philosophical poet too long overlooked. An essential volume."
—Brenda Wineapple, White Heat and Ecstatic Nation
During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan became a key figure in New York City's circle of fiction writers. His tales compare favorably with those of his contemporary Washington Irving, and his varied experiments in a new genre anticipate future developments by half a century and more.
Gado’s previous book presented Bryant as a major exponent of American literary nationalism and the prime antecedent of Whitman and Frost; here, he retrieves a body of short fiction from the fringe of oblivion and both shines a light on the neglected decade preceding Poe and Hawthorne and examines Bryant’s tales as part of that history.
"Frank Gado’s first-rate selection of William Cullen Bryant’s poetry and prose and his persuasive essays on Bryant’s contribution to American prosody and culture restore [him] to his rightful place in American literary history as the philosophical poet too long overlooked. An essential volume."
—Brenda Wineapple, White Heat and Ecstatic Nation
Table of Contents
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- Fiction
- A Pennsylvanian Legend
- pp. 17-32
- A Border Tradition
- pp. 33-46
- Preface to The Talisman
- pp. 60-62
- The Legend of the Devil’s Pulpit
- pp. 63-92
- The Cascade of Melsingah
- pp. 93-107
- Adventure in the East Indies
- pp. 108-114
- Story of the Island of Cuba
- pp. 115-142
- The Whirlwind
- pp. 143-152
- The Indian Spring
- pp. 153-163
- The Marriage Blunder
- pp. 164-189
- Glauber‑Spa
- pp. 190-200
- The Skeleton's Cave
- pp. 201-234
- Commentary
- pp. 261-319
- About the Editor
- p. 328
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611685701
Related ISBN(s)
9781611685688
MARC Record
OCLC
889537715
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-28
Language
English
Open Access
No