02567oam 2200577 450 991015162450332120170911125528.00-472-12216-910.3998/mpub.8783628(CKB)3710000000912762(MiAaPQ)EBC4745275(OCoLC)961188175(MdBmJHUP)muse54270(MiU)10.3998/mpub.8783628(EXLCZ)99371000000091276220160415d2016 ub 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 /Michael J. CollinsAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2016]1 online resource (279 pages) illustrations0-472-13003-X Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 251-270).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.Short stories, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPerformance in literaturePerforming arts in literatureTheater in literatureRitual in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureAmericaIn literatureShort stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Performance in literature.Performing arts in literature.Theater in literature.Ritual in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.813/.010903Collins Michael J(Michael James),1984-1245618Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910151624503321The drama of the American short story, 1800-18652888813UNINA