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The modern short story and magazine culture, 1880-1950 / edited by Elke D'hoker and Chris Mourant.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Short stories.
- Short stories--Publishing--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- The Modern Short Story & Magazine Culture, 1880-1950
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880-1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning of short stories within a variety of periodical publications - highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked writers into developing the genre.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The 'wire-puller': L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of and the Short Story
- Chapter 2 The Short Story Series of Annie S. Swan for The Woman at Home
- Chapter 3 Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Albemarle: A Study of Contexts
- Chapter 4 'It is astonishing how little literature has to show of the life of the poor': Ford Madox
- Chapter 5 Rhythm and the Short Story
- Chapter 6 For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artist Stories in The Royal and The Strand
- Chapter 7 Fiction for the Woman of To-day: The Modern Short Story in Eve
- Chapter 8 Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercu
- Chapter 9 Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping Magazine
- Chapter 10 Virginia Woolf and the Magazines
- Chapter 11 Horizon Magazine and the Wartime Short Story, 1940-1945
- Chapter 12 John Lehmann's War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950)
- Chapter 13 Voicing 'the native tang of idiom': Lagan Magazine, 1943-1946
- Chapter 14 The Short Story in Wales (1937-1949): 'Though we write in English, we are rooted in Wale
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-6111-5
- 1-4744-9603-2
- 1-4744-6110-7
- OCLC:
- 1242108623
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