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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 Arts3. "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 FunhouseFrom Exhaustion to Hybrid Energy: The Variable of Voice in Storytelling
Ambrose as "Wandering Hero": The "Life-Pattern" of
Lost in the Funhouse5. Sameness-in-Difference and Audience Share: Individuals and Communities in Amy Tan's
The Joy Luck ClubAuthenticity 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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
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.
