The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

Cambridge University Press, 11/14/2016
EAN 9781107167421, ISBN10: 1107167426

Hardcover, 668 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4 cm
Language: English

The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it will become a standard work of reference in its field.

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Dominic Head
1. Early modern diversity
the origins of English short fiction Barbara Korte
2. Short prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Donald J. Newman
3. Gothic and Victorian supernatural tales Jessica Cox
4. The Victorian potboiler
novelists writing short stories Sophie Gilmartin
5. Fable, myth and folktale
the writing of oral and traditional story forms Andrew Harrison
6. The colonial short story, adventure and the exotic Robert Hampson
7. The Yellow Book circle and the culture of the literary magazine Winnie Chan
8. The modernist short story
fractured perspectives Claire Drewery
9. War stories
the short story in World Wars I and II Ann-Marie Einhaus
10. The short story in Ireland to 1945
a national literature Heather Ingman
11. The short story in Ireland since 1945
a modernizing tradition Heather Ingman
12. The short story in Scotland
from oral tale to dialectal style Timothy C. Baker
13. The short story in Wales
cultivated regionalism Jane Aaron
14. The understated art, English style Dean Baldwin
15. The rural tradition in the English short story Dominic Head
16. Metropolitan modernity
stories of London Neal Alexander
17. Gender and genre
short fiction, feminism and female experience Sabine Coelsch-Foisner
18. Queer short stories
an inverted history Brett Josef Grubisic and Carellin Brooks
19. Stories of Jewish identity
survivors, exiles and cosmopolitans Axel Stähler
20. New voices
multicultural short stories Abigail Ward
21. Settler stories
postcolonial short fiction Victoria Kuttainen
22. After Empire
postcolonial short fiction and the oral tradition John Thieme
23. Ghost stories and supernatural tales Ruth Robbins
24. The detective story
order from chaos Andrew Maunder
25. Frontiers
science fiction and the British marketplace Paul March-Russell
26. Weird stories
the potency of horror and fantasy Roger Luckhurst
27. Experimentalism
self-reflexive and postmodernist stories David James
28. Satirical stories
estrangement and social critique Sandie Byrne
29. Comedic short fiction Richard Bradford
30. Short story cycles
between the novel and the story collection Gerald Lynch
31. The novella
between the novel and the story Gerri Kimber
32. The short story visualized
adaptations and screenplays Linda Costanzo Cahir
33. The short story anthology
shaping the canon Lynda Prescott
34. The institution of creative writing Ailsa Cox
35. Short story futures Julian Murphet
Bibliography
Index.