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American literature was in a state of flux between the first and second World Wars-the social upheavals of the postwar decade and the superb fiction to which they gave birth have made this the most consistently scrutinized of any period in American literary history. Those authors most closely identified with the modernist spirit in fiction discovered methods of protest deeply rooted in the literary imagination. Radical changes in language, sty...

The three decades covered in this DLB volume demonstrate dramatic changes in the conception of the short story form in America. Remarkable upheavals were taking place in the Western world-shifts in culture and expectations for the future based on the dizzying speed of transformation brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The texture of daily life mirrored these changes, and the new age gave rise to a new literature reflecting its impulses...

Against the background of the early American republic, characterized by hardships of settlement life, the effects of the Revolutionary War, and the repressiveness of Puritanism, there arose a vital new literary form-an extraordinary and uniquely American contribution to the world of letters-the short story. Readers can trace its evolution into the 19th century through profiles of 36 of its earliest practitioners in this DLB volume. Included is...