America's sketchbook : the cultural life of a nineteenth-century literary genre /
Hamilton, Kristie.
Athens : Ohio University Press,
1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.
American prose literature
Literature and society
Popular literature
Books and reading
American essays
Short stories, American
Description (Rhetoric)
Realism in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
Literary form.