1st Edition
Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections
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 Arts
3. "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 Funhouse
From Exhaustion to Hybrid Energy: The Variable of Voice in Storytelling
Ambrose as "Wandering Hero": The "Life-Pattern" of Lost in the Funhouse
5. Sameness-in-Difference and Audience Share: Individuals and Communities in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
Authenticity 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
Biography
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.
