Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation: Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections : Routledge : 9781032086729 : 1032086726 : 30 Jun 2021 : Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. It emphasizes how the fictional form grew out of an established publishing model?individual stories printed in magazines, revised and expanded into single-author volumes that resemble novels?which creates multiple contexts for the reception of this literature. By acknowledging the prior appearance of stories in periodicals, the book examines textual variants and the role of editorial emendation, drawing on archival records (drafts and correspondence) whenever possible. It also considers how the pages of magazines create a context for the reception of short stories that differs significantly from that of the single-author book. The chapters explore how short stories, appe