Providing details about the external conflict of the story makes the story more adventurous, mysterious and young readers and early adventure book reading starters would love to read it. Example, Sherlock Holmes.
In 1840, the transcendentalist periodical The Dial Walden "Self-Reliance" "Nature" was founded, and in that same year it published "Orphic Sayings" by Amos Bronson Alcott.