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"Jennifer Smith offers an excellent examination of the relationship between literary innovation and the experience of modernity. She persuasively demonstrates how the American short story cycle, from Anderson to Egan, has served as a vehicle for exploring the passage of time, the desire for nostalgia and the illusion of authenticity.-- ""Paul March-Russell, University of Kent"""

Jennifer Smith offers an excellent examination of the relationship between literary innovation and the experience of modernity. She persuasively demonstrates how the American short story cycle, from Anderson to Egan, has served as a vehicle for exploring the passage of time, the desire for nostalgia and the illusion of authenticity.-- ""Paul March-Russell, University of Kent""

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Jennifer J. Smith is an Assistant Professor of English at Franklin College. Her research and teaching focus on American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, with special interests in narrative theory, gender studies, and comparative ethnic approaches. Her work has appeared in Pedagogy, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, and The Journal of the Short Story in English, as well as a number of essay collections.

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