The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English / / Adrian Hunter, Paul Delaney.

New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literatureThis collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Historicising the Short Story
  • 1 Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story
  • 2 The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies
  • 3 Impressionism and the Short Story
  • 4 Writers on the Short Story: 1950–present
  • Part II: Publishing the Short Story
  • 5 The Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’
  • 6 Collections, Cycles and Sequences
  • 7 The Short Story Anthology
  • 8 The Short Story and Digital Media
  • Part III: Forms of the Short Story
  • 9 Short-Short Fiction
  • 10 The Weird Tale
  • 11 The Horror Story
  • 12 Experimental Short Stories
  • 13 The War Story
  • Part IV: Placing the Short Story
  • 14 Regionalism and the Short Story
  • 15 The Short Story and the City
  • 16 The Short Story in Suburbia
  • 17 The Short Story and the Environment
  • Part V: Identity and the Short Story
  • 18 Gender and Genre in the Short Story
  • 19 Diaspora and the Short Story
  • 20 The Queer Short Story
  • 21 Disability and the Short Story
  • Index of Short Story Titles
  • General Index