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The modern short story and magazine culture, 1880-1950 / edited by Elke D'hoker and Chris Mourant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'hoker, Elke, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- 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.
- 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:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-6111-5
- 1-4744-9603-2
- 1-4744-6110-7
- OCLC:
- 1242108623
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