The Cambridge History of the English Short Story [Hardcover]

A comprehensive overview of the English short story, charting its origins and development through to the present day.This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacles that have hindered this venture by providing readers with a chronological account of the short story from its origins to the present day.This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacles that have hindered this venture by providing readers with a chronological account of the short story from its origins to the present day.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. TlC%