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The short story has become an increasingly important genre since

the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge

Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the

development of the short story in Britain and other

English-language li***tures. It c***iders issues of form and style

alongside - and often as part of - a broader discussion of

publishing history and the cultural contexts in which the short

story has flourished and continues to flourish. In its structure

the book provides a chronological survey of the form, usefully

grouping writers to show the development of the genre over time.

Starting with Dickens and Kipling, the chapters cover key authors

from the past two centuries and up to the present day. The focus on

form, li***ry history, and cultural context, togethe***ith the

highlighting of the greatest short stories and their authors, make

this a stimulating and informative overview for all students of

English li***ture.

Introduction

Part I. The Nineteenth Century: Introduction: Publishers, plots and

prestige

1. Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy

2. Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad

3. The Yellow Book circle and the 1890s avant-garde

Part II. The Modernist Short Story: Introduction: 'Complete with

missing parts'

4. James Joyce

5. Virginia Woolf

6. Katherine Mansfield

7. Samuel Beckett

Part III. Post-Modernist Stories

Introduction: Theories of form

8. Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain

9. Elizabeth Bowen and V. S. Pritchett

10. Angela Carter and Ian McEwan

Part IV. Post-colonial and Other Stories

Introduction: A 'minor' li***ture?

11. Frank Sargeson and Marjorie Barnard

12. James Kelman and Chinua Achebe

13. Alice Munro

Guide to further reading

Index

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The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this 2007 book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language li***tures. It c***iders issues of form and style alongside - and often as part of - a broader discussion of publishing history and the cultural contexts in which the short story has flourished and continues to flourish. In its structure the book provides a chronological survey of the form, usefully grouping writers to show the development of the genre over time. Starting with Dickens and Kipling, the chapters cover key authors from the past two centuries and up to the present day. The focus on form, li***ry history, and cultural context, togethe***ith the highlighting of the greatest short stories and their authors, make this a stimulating and informative overview for all students of English li***ture.