Intimations of Orality: Scotland, America and the Early Development of the Short Story.

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  • Author(s): Lyall, R. J.
  • Source:
    Studies in Short Fiction. Summer99, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p311. 15p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Fiction; Literature
    • Subject Terms:
      United States
    • Abstract:
      Discusses the emergence of short story in the U.S. in the first half of the nineteenth century. Details on the contributions of authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville; Significance of the development of literary magazine for the dissemination of short prose texts; Historical pattern of alteration between Scotland and the U.S. that formed the matrix for the earliest development of the short story.