CONTENTS PREFACE ix PART I: INTRODUCTION, SURVEY, AND THEORY 1 1. Introduction: Features, Objectives, and Premises of A History of the American Short Story Michael Basseler & Ansgar Nünning 3 2. A Brief Survey of this History of the American Short Story Michael Basseler 21 3. Theories and Typologies of the Short Story Michael Basseler 41 PART II: EARLY ROOTS AND FORMAL BEGINNINGS: FROM TALE TO SHORT STORY 65 4. Early American Short Narratives: The Art of Story-Telling Prior to Washington Irving Oliver Scheiding & Martin Seidl 67 5. Stories of the Puritan Legacy: Myth and Allegory in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” Werner Reinhart 81 6. Tales of Detection and Deterioration: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” Erik Redling 95 7. Between Romance and Realism: ‘Twice-Told’ Urban Gothic in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and Related Mid-19th-Century Narratives of Modern City Life Ingo Berensmeyer & Martin Spies 109 8. The Rise of Local-Color Writing in the American West: Bret Harte’s “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Holger Kersten 123 9. Anti-War Stories, Horror Stories, and Tall Tales: Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Oil of Dog” Robert Vogt 137 Michael Basseler & Ansgar Nünning (eds.), A History of the American Short Story: Genres - Developments - Model Interpretations. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011.