This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacles that have hindered this venture by providing readers with a chronological account of the short story from its origins to the present day.
This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacles that have hindered this venture by providing readers with a chronological account of the short story from its origins to the present day.
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Dominic Head 1. Early modern diversity: the origins of English short fiction Barbara Korte 2. Short prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Donald J. Newman 3. Gothic and Victorian supernatural tales Jessica Cox 4. The Victorian potboiler: novelists writing short stories Sophie Gilmartin 5. Fable, myth and folktale: the writing of oral and traditional story forms Andrew Harrison 6. The colonial short story, adventure and the exotic Robert Hampson 7. The Yellow Book circle and the culture of the literary magazine Winnie Chan 8. The modernist short story: fractured perspectives Claire Drewery 9. War stories: the short story in World Wars I and II Ann-Marie Einhaus 10. The short story in Ireland to 1945: a national literature Heather Ingman 11. The short story in Ireland since 1945: a modernizing tradition Heather Ingman 12. The short story in Scotland: from oral tale to dialectal style Timothy C. Baker 13. The short story in Wales: cultivated regionalism Jane Aaron 14. The understated art, English style Dean Baldwin 15. The rural tradition in the English short story Dominic Head 16. Metropolitan modernity: stories of London Neal Alexander 17. Gender and genre: short fiction, feminism and female experience Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 18. Queer short stories: an inverted history Brett Josef Grubisic and Carellin Brooks 19. Stories of Jewish identity: survivors, exiles and cosmopolitans Axel Stähler 20. New voices: multicultural short stories Abigail Ward 21. Settler stories: postcolonial short fiction Victoria Kuttainen 22. After Empire: postcolonial short fiction and the oral tradition John Thieme 23. Ghost stories and supernatural tales Ruth Robbins 24. The detective story: order from chaos Andrew Maunder 25. Frontiers: science fiction and the British marketplace Paul March-Russell 26. Weird stories: the potency of horror and fantasy Roger Luckhurst 27. Experimentalism: self-reflexive and postmodernist stories David James 28. Satirical stories: estrangement and social critique Sandie Byrne 29. Comedic short fiction Richard Bradford 30. Short story cycles: between the novel and the story collection Gerald Lynch 31. The novella: between the novel and the story Gerri Kimber 32. The short story visualized: adaptations and screenplays Linda Costanzo Cahir 33. The short story anthology: shaping the canon Lynda Prescott 34. The institution of creative writing Ailsa Cox 35. Short story futures Julian Murphet Bibliography Index.
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Dominic Head 1. Early modern diversity: the origins of English short fiction Barbara Korte 2. Short prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Donald J. Newman 3. Gothic and Victorian supernatural tales Jessica Cox 4. The Victorian potboiler: novelists writing short stories Sophie Gilmartin 5. Fable, myth and folktale: the writing of oral and traditional story forms Andrew Harrison 6. The colonial short story, adventure and the exotic Robert Hampson 7. The Yellow Book circle and the culture of the literary magazine Winnie Chan 8. The modernist short story: fractured perspectives Claire Drewery 9. War stories: the short story in World Wars I and II Ann-Marie Einhaus 10. The short story in Ireland to 1945: a national literature Heather Ingman 11. The short story in Ireland since 1945: a modernizing tradition Heather Ingman 12. The short story in Scotland: from oral tale to dialectal style Timothy C. Baker 13. The short story in Wales: cultivated regionalism Jane Aaron 14. The understated art, English style Dean Baldwin 15. The rural tradition in the English short story Dominic Head 16. Metropolitan modernity: stories of London Neal Alexander 17. Gender and genre: short fiction, feminism and female experience Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 18. Queer short stories: an inverted history Brett Josef Grubisic and Carellin Brooks 19. Stories of Jewish identity: survivors, exiles and cosmopolitans Axel Stähler 20. New voices: multicultural short stories Abigail Ward 21. Settler stories: postcolonial short fiction Victoria Kuttainen 22. After Empire: postcolonial short fiction and the oral tradition John Thieme 23. Ghost stories and supernatural tales Ruth Robbins 24. The detective story: order from chaos Andrew Maunder 25. Frontiers: science fiction and the British marketplace Paul March-Russell 26. Weird stories: the potency of horror and fantasy Roger Luckhurst 27. Experimentalism: self-reflexive and postmodernist stories David James 28. Satirical stories: estrangement and social critique Sandie Byrne 29. Comedic short fiction Richard Bradford 30. Short story cycles: between the novel and the story collection Gerald Lynch 31. The novella: between the novel and the story Gerri Kimber 32. The short story visualized: adaptations and screenplays Linda Costanzo Cahir 33. The short story anthology: shaping the canon Lynda Prescott 34. The institution of creative writing Ailsa Cox 35. Short story futures Julian Murphet Bibliography Index.
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
