Abstract:and rooted in Hawthorne's "invention" of the genre at the beginning of the nineteenth century.This apparently comprehensive view of the genre, however, left a crucial missing link: critics tend to ignore the end of nineteenth century, despite the fact that this period has a strong claim as a major stage -if not the major stage -of the form. There is of course nothing ground-breaking in such an assertion: it is well documented that the short story was enormously popular at this time, and that innumerable period… Show more
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