The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

Herausgeber: Einhaus, Ann-Marie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring fourteen essays from international experts, this Companion provides an accessible overview of English-language short fiction outside of North America. It discusses the development and impact of the short story - including a variety of subgenres such as detective fiction and flash fiction - from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781107446014
• ISBN-10: 1107446015
• Artikelnr.: 44263447

Inhaltsangabe

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.