The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
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The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

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The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

About this book

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 evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it will become a standard work of reference in its field.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. A Note on the Texts
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Early-Modern Diversity: The Origins of English Short Fiction
  11. 2 Short Prose Narratives of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  12. 3 Gothic and Victorian Supernatural Tales
  13. 4 The Victorian Potboiler: Novelists Writing Short Stories
  14. 5 Fable, Myth and Folk Tale: The Writing of Oral and Traditional Story Forms
  15. 6 The Colonial Short Story, Adventure and the Exotic
  16. 7 The Yellow Book Circle and the Culture of the Literary Magazine
  17. 8 The Modernist Short Story: Fractured Perspectives
  18. 9 War Stories: The Short Story in the First and Second World Wars
  19. 10 The Short Story in Ireland to 1945: A National Literature
  20. 11 The Short Story in Ireland since 1945: A Modernizing Tradition
  21. 12 The Short Story in Scotland: From Oral Tale to Dialectal Style
  22. 13 The Short Story in Wales: Cultivated Regionalism
  23. 14 The Understated Art, English Style
  24. 15 The Rural Tradition in the English Short Story
  25. 16 Metropolitan Modernity: Stories of London
  26. 17 Gender and Genre: Short Fiction, Feminism and Female Experience
  27. 18 Queer Short Stories: An Inverted History
  28. 19 Stories of Jewish Identity: Survivors, Exiles and Cosmopolitans
  29. 20 New Voices: Multicultural Short Stories
  30. 21 Settler Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction
  31. 22 After Empire: Postcolonial Short Fiction and the Oral Tradition
  32. 23 Ghost Stories and Supernatural Tales
  33. 24 The Detective Story: Order from Chaos
  34. 25 Frontiers: Science Fiction and the British Marketplace
  35. 26 Weird Stories: The Potency of Horror and Fantasy
  36. 27 Experimentalism: Self-Reflexive and Postmodernist Stories
  37. 28 Satirical Stories: Estrangement and Social Critique
  38. 29 Comedic Short Fiction
  39. 30 Short Story Cycles: Between the Novel and the Story Collection
  40. 31 The Novella: Between the Novel and the Story
  41. 32 The Short Story Visualized: Adaptations and Screenplays
  42. 33 The Short Story Anthology: Shaping the Canon
  43. 34 The Institution of Creative Writing
  44. 35 Short Story Futures
  45. Select Bibliography
  46. Index