Some Examples of American "Bachelor Fictions"
Adventures of a Bachelor; or, Stolen Vigils.
(1837)
Bowers, Benjamin. The Bachelor's Escape from the Snare of the Fowler
(1845)
Bunce, Oliver Bell. A Bachelor's Story
(1859)
Flint, Timothy. The Bachelor Reclaimed, or Celibacy Vanquished
(1834)
---"A Chapter in the Life of a Bachelor: A South American Story"
Knickerbocker
(1834)
Godey's Ladies' Book,
"The Old Bachelor" (1850)
---"An Old Bachelor's Soliloquy" (1855)
Harper's New Monthly Magazine,
"A Bachelor's Christmas"(1851)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance
(1852)
Irving, Washington. Salmagundi
(1807-8)
-----The Sketch Book
(1819)
Knapp, Samuel.
The Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and Character
(1836)
Knickberbocker
"Recollections of a Bachelor, Written by Himself" (1833)
Melville, Herman. "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1856)
----Pierre
(1852)
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"The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"(1855)
Mitchell, Donald Grant. Reveries of a Bachelor
(1850)
Seaton, Walter. A Man in Search of a Wife; or, The Adventures of a Bachelor in New York
(1853)
Simms, William Gilmore. Castle Dismal: or, The Bachelor's Christmas. A Domestic Legend
(1844)
Southern Literary Messenger,
"The Bachelor's Death Bed" (1838)
---"Dorcas Lindsay, or, The Bachelor's Writing Desk" (1839)
---"A Stray Leaf from a Bachelor's Notebook" (1839)
---"The Bachelor Beset; or, The Rival Candidates" (1839)
---"On Old Bachelors" (1853)
Tuckerman, Henry Theordore.
"The Bachelor Reclaimed: A Sketch from Real Life" (1841)
US Literary Gazette,
"The Bachelor" (1825).
Weems, Mason Locke. Hymen's Recruiting-Sergeant, or, The New Matrimonial Tat-too for Old Bachelors
(1800)
