Harold Orel, Orel Harold

The Victorian Short Story

Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the development of the Victorian short story, which by the 1890s had become the most popular literary product of the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780521135481
• ISBN-10: 0521135486
• Artikelnr.: 29019540

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: problems in defining a genre
1. William Carleton: elements of the folk tradition
2. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: developing the horror tale
3. Charles Dickens: establishing rapport with the public
4. Anthony Trollope: baking tarts for readers of periodicals
5. Thomas Hardy: an older tradition of narrative
6. Robert Louis Stevenson: many problems, some successes
7. Rudyard Kipling: the Anglo-Indian stories
8. Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: different concepts of a short story
Epilogue: the triumph of a genre
Notes
Index.