The Cambridge history of the English short story / edited by Dominic Head.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Head, Dominic, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, English--History and criticism.

Short stories, English.

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Short story.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 657 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"A comprehensive overview of the English short story, charting its origins and development through to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic development of the English short story to the present day, the historical development of the genre is presented in the first history of its kind. There is no single book that provides such an overview. Written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and trans-historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English Literature students and scholars of the English Short Story generally, this book has the potential to become a standard work of reference within its field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Dominic Head

Early-modern diversity: the origins of English short fiction / Barbara Korte

Short prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Donald J. Newman

Gothic and Victorian supernatural tales / Jessica Cox

The Victorian potboiler: novelists writing short stories / Sophie Gilmartin

Fable, myth and folktale: the writing of oral and traditional story forms / Andrew Harrison

The colonial short story, adventure and the exotic / Robert Hampson

The Yellow Book circle and the culture of the literary magazine / Winnie Chan

The modernist short story: fractured perspectives / Claire Drewery

War stories: the short story in the First and Second World War / Ann-Marie Einhaus

The short story in Ireland to 1945: a national literature / Heather Ingman

The short story in Ireland since 1945: a modernizing tradition / Heather Ingman

The short story in Scotland: from oral tale to dialectal style / Timothy C. Baker

The short story in Wales: cultivated regionalism / Jane Aaron

The understated art, English style / Dean Baldwin

The rural tradition in the English short story / Dominic Head

Metropolitan modernity: stories of London / Neal Alexander

Gender and genre: short fiction, feminism and female experience / Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

Queer short stories: an inverted history / Brett Josef Grubisic and Carellin Brooks

Stories of Jewish identity: survivors, exiles and cosmopolitans / Axel Stähler

New voices: multicultural short stories / Abigail Ward

Settler stories: postcolonial short fiction / Victoria Kuttainen

After Empire: postcolonial short fiction and the oral tradition / John Thieme

Ghost stories and supernatural tales / Ruth Robbins

The detective story: order from chaos / Andrew Maunder

Frontiers: science fiction and the British marketplace / Paul March-Russell

Weird stories: the potency of horror and fantasy / Roger Luckhurst

Experimentalism: self-reflexive and postmodernist stories / David James

Satirical stories: estrangement and social critique / Sandie Byrne

Comedic short fiction / Richard Bradford

Short story cycles: between the novel and the story collection / Gerald Lynch

The novella: between the novel and the story / Gerri Kimber

The short story visualized: adaptations and screenplays / Linda Costanzo Cahir

The short story anthology: shaping the canon / Lynda Prescott

The institution of creative writing / Ailsa Cox

Short story futures / Julian Murphet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107167421

1107167426

OCLC:

952195754