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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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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.