Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation: Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections

ISBN-13: 9781032086729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Matthew Vechinski

Opis

Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. By acknowledging the prior appearance of stories in periodicals, the book examines textual variants and the role of editorial emendation, drawing on archival records.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Note on the Text

1. Linked Story Collections: Products of Republication

Introduction

The Textual Histories of Twice-Finished Tales

In Front of Actual Audiences

The Trouble with Genre

Calling a Collection a Collection

Chapter Summaries

2. Modernity and Spiritual Isolation in Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson, Young America, and Popular Socialism

Groping: Between Craft and Circumstance

Socialist Parables for The Masses

"Striking Out" in The Seven Arts

3. "Can all this be the same person?": Memoir and the Fragmented Self in Mary McCarthy’s The Company She Keeps

"A Good Eye for Social Types"

Libelous Relationality

4. Stories on Tape: John Barth Massaging the Medium in Lost in the Funhouse

From Exhaustion to Hybrid Energy: The Variable of Voice in Storytelling

Ambrose as "Wandering Hero": The "Life-Pattern" of Lost in the Funhouse

5. Sameness-in-Difference and Audience Share: Individuals and Communities in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

Authenticity and Idealization in Women’s Magazines

Escape Routes in "The Rules of the Game"

Vicarious Cultural Experiences in "The Joy Luck Club"

Chinese Fairy Tales and Faked Voices

Epilogue: Collections 2.0: The Imaginary Worlds of Linked Stories and the Internet Worlds of Periodicals

O autorze

Matthew James Vechinski　is an associate professor in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his PhD in English and Textual Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. His scholarship combining genetic criticism, reception study, and periodical studies has appeared in the journals　Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;　Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History; and　Textual Practice.