The Cambridge companion to the English short story /

This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts from the early nineteenth century to the present....

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Other Authors: Einhaus, Ann-Marie (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ann-Marie Einhaus
  • Part I. Contexts : Writing and publishing the short story / Paul March-Russell
  • Social realism in the short story / Anthony Patterson
  • The short story and the anxieties of Empire / Barbara Korte
  • The short story, identity, space, and place / David Malcolm
  • Part II. Periods : Romantic short fiction / David Stewart
  • Victorian short stories / John Plotz
  • The short story in the early twentieth century / Ann-Marie Einhaus
  • Mid-twentieth-century stories / Victoria Stewart
  • The short story from postmodernism to the digital age / Maebh Long
  • Part III. Genres : Comic short fiction and its variety / Kate Macdonald
  • The detective short story / Martin Priestman
  • The gothic in short fiction / Luke Thurston
  • The British science fiction story / Andrew M. Butler
  • Microfiction / Marc Botha.