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Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook

This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers:

A comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story Interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished A representative selection of critical responses Acomprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index

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This first in-depth study of Jean Stafford's more than 40 short stories reveals that she treated her subject--the lives of girls and women "from childhood to old age"--in terms of "female self-definition, powerlessness, and marginality." Wilson (Univ. of Southwest Louisiana) analyzes some of the major stories, dividing them into four categories: "The Innocents Abroad"; "The Bostonians and Other Manifestations of the American Scene"; "Cowboys and Indians, and Magic Mountains"; and "Manhattan Island." She also includes comments by 12 critics and reminiscences by two friends, Dorothea Straus and Peter Taylor (Taylor: "In life, Jean was, in a sense, always playing a role.... Her literary personality remains her best kept secret.") Wilson's readable, sane essays examine her stories in part as they relate to Stafford herself: "Stafford kept rewriting her own life in these stories." The essays also consider her style, her "ear for the telling phrase, the offbeat metaphor, the colorful analogy." With its notes and chronology, this valuable addition to the Twayne library should enlighten both those familiar and those unfamiliar with Stafford's work. Highly recommended. J. Overmyer emerita, Ohio State University