The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / by Collins, Michael J. 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802 -- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent -- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard -- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs -- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies -- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England -- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism.…”

The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / by Collins, Michael J. 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802 -- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent -- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard -- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs -- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies -- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England -- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism.…”
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Childhood and innocence in American culture : heartaches and nightmares /

Table of Contents: “…Curtis -- Finding (and losing) the American child : interiority ad the wilderness of the self in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Cycle / Rebecca Long -- 'Growing up too fast, too soon' : the child prodigy in late postmodernist literature / Oliver J. …”