The Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1840 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Introduction
By the year 1800 various Western literatures could boast isolated examples of works which, if they were published today, would almost certainly be called short stories in the modern sense of the term. These works are in one sense rather like those hypothetical Phoenicians or Greeks who stumbled onto America before Columbus. In the final analysis Columbus is celebrated not so much for being the first as for being the first to make much historical difference. By the same token, the originator of the modern short story is the writer whose first short story made the...
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See Also:
Late Nineteenth Century: 1840-1880, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)Origins and Development of the Novel Before 1740 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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