British Women Short Story Writers : : The New Woman to Now / / Emma Young, James Bailey.
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 c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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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