The Short Story in Midcentury America: Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and WilliamsThe Short Story in Midcentury America provides in depth case studies of four major writers of the post World War II era Paul Bowles, Mary McCarthy, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams examining how they used the contained aesthetics of short fiction to map out an oppositional stance to the dominant narratives, both political and literary, of mid twentieth century U. S. culture. Sam V. H. Reese presents a new understanding of the connections between