Familiar Wilderness (ed. Miller)

Editor: Nathan (Nate) Miller

Publisher: Roman Roads

File under: Miller

ISBN: 97819635055252

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

More than any other country in history, the landscape of American literature has been shaped by short stories. Presented with its constraints, American authors became explorers, inventing new genres, like Edgar Allen Poe did, or new modes and techniques of writing, such as Mark Twain’s local “color” and regionalism. From the sleepy, post-revolution New England setting of Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” to the dazzling, roaring 20s setting of “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this volume presents the major authors and movements of American Short Story which spangle the history of American literature.