Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation - 9781032086729

Taylor & Francis

Twentieth-Century American Fiction in CirculationShort Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections\nAuthor(s): Matthew Vechinski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032086729, 978-1032086729\nSynopsis\nTwentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. It emphasizes how the fictional form grew out of an established publishing modelindividual stories printed in magazines, revised and expanded into single-author volumes that resemble novelswhich creates multiple contexts for the reception of this literature. By acknowledging the prior appearance of stories in periodicals, the book examines textual variants and the role of editorial emendation, drawing on archival records (drafts and correspondence) whenever possible. It also considers how the pages of magazines create a context for the reception of short sto.