American Short Story- The Romantic Period

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Nathaniel Hawthorne's earliest tales ("Provincial Tales" and "Seven Tales of My Native Land") published individually in Token, Salem Gazette, and Atlantic Souvenir. A video on Romanticism
  • Edgar Allen Poe

    Edgar Allen Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe's first tale ("Metzengerstein") published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
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  • William Gilmore Simms

    William Gilmore Simms
    William Gilmore Simms' "The Book of My Lady" published in Philadelphia.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Hawthorne's "Twice-Told Tales" published in Boston.
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  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe
    Poe's "The Prose Romances of Edgar Allan Poe" published by William Graham.
  • William T. Porter

    William T. Porter
    "A Quarter Race in Kentucky, and Other Sketches" was published by Carey & Hart.
  • Herman Melville

    Herman Melville
    The Piazza Tales ("Bartleby the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas") were published. Audio Book