The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-107-44601-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Literature

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. They consider how dramatic changes in the publishing landscape during this period - such as the rise of the fiction magazine and the emergence of new opportunities in online and electronic publishing - influenced the form, covering subgenres from detective fiction to flash fiction. Drawing on a wealth of critical scholarship to place the short story in the English literary tradition, this volume will be an invaluable guide for students of the short story in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Einhaus, Ann-Marie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Ann-Marie Einhaus; Part I. Contexts: 1. Writing and publishing the short story Paul March-Russell; 2. Social realism in the short story Anthony Patterson; 3. The short story and the anxieties of Empire Barbara Korte; 4. The short story, identity, space, and place David Malcolm; Part II. Periods: 5. Romantic short fiction David Stewart; 6. Victorian short stories John Plotz; 7. The short story in the early twentieth century Ann-Marie Einhaus; 8. Mid-twentieth-century stories Victoria Stewart; 9. The short story from postmodernism to the digital age Maebh Long; Part III. Genres: 10. Comic short fiction and its variety Kate Macdonald; 11. The detective short story Martin Priestman; 12. The gothic in short fiction Luke Thurston; 13. The British science fiction story Andrew M. Butler; 14. Microfiction Marc Botha.

Über Autor(innen)

Einhaus, Ann-Marie
Ann-Marie Einhaus is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is the author of The Short Story and the First World War (Cambridge, 2013) and coeditor, with Barbara Korte, of The Penguin Book of First World War Stories.