British Women Short Story Writers : : The New Woman to Now / / Emma Young, James Bailey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Young, Emma,; Bailey, James,
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, James,; Bowler, Rebecca,; Cox, Ailsa,; Davies, Ben,; Dunst, Maura,; Hanson, Clare,; Howitt-Dring, Holly,; Liggins, Emma,; Piette, Adam,; Ryan-Sautour, Michelle,; Smith, Ali,; Vice, Sue,; Young, Emma,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? Considering the effect of literary inheritances, societal and cultural change, and shifting publishing demands, this collection traces the evolution of the genre through to its continued appeal to women writing today; from the New Woman to contemporary feminisms, women's anthologies to micro fiction, and modernist writers to the contemporary works.Key Features A foreword by Ali Smith and 12 chapters discuss a range of gender and genre issues since the fin-de-siècle to the present day.A comprehensive account of the genre's development provides a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of women's writing.Sets out a clear trajectory to map both the historical and literary connections and divergences between British women short story writers. Offers a comprehensive account of the genre's development to provide scholars with a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of women's writing.Includes new readings of canonical authors alongside more recent theoretical approaches, innovations and lesser-discussed writers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories -- 3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity -- 4. Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story -- 5. War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen -- 6. 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark -- 7. Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short Narratives -- 8. New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century -- 9. Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment -- 10. Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley -- 11. Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories -- 12. Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction -- 13. Postscript: British Women's Short Story Writing -- Contributor Biographies -- Index