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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511611360
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611360
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

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 literatures. It considers 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, literary history, and cultural context, together with the highlighting of the greatest short stories and their authors, make this a stimulating and informative overview for all students of English literature.

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further reading
Anthologies
Achebe, Chinua, and Innes, C. L. (eds.). African Short Stories. London: Heinemann, 1985.
Achebe, Chinua and Innes, C. L.The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories. Oxford: Heinemann, 1992.
Atwood, Margaret, and Weaver, Robert (eds.). The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Toronto and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Bradbury, Malcolm (ed.). The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.
Byatt, A. S. (ed.). The Oxford Book of English Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Dolley, Christopher (ed.). The Penguin Book of English Short Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
Dunn, Douglas (ed.). The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Goldsworthy, Kerryn (ed.). Australian Short Stories. Melbourne and London: Dent, 1983.
Hudson, Derek (ed.). Modern English Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Kravitz, Peter (ed.). The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. London: Picador, 1997.
O'Connor, Frank (ed.). Classic Irish Short Stories. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories. Auckland and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Trevor, William (ed.). The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Volumes of short stories by individual author, and related critical works
Achebe, Chinua
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Short Stories. Omitsha: Etudo, 1962.
Girls at War and Other Stories. London: Heinemann, 1972.
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. London: Heinemann, 1988.
Carroll, David. Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic. Second edition. London: Macmillan, 1990.
Innes, C. L.Chinua Achebe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Barnard, Marjorie
The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories. Sydney: Clarendon, 1943; London: Virago, 1985.
Bennett, Bruce. Australian Short Fiction: A History. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
Modjeska, Drusilla. Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945. London and Sydney: Sirius, 1984.
Beckett, Samuel
More Pricks Than Kicks. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934; London: John Calder, 1970.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929–1989, ed. Gontarski, S. E.. New York: Grove, 1995.
Carey, Phyllis, and Jewinski, Ed (eds.), Re: Joyce'n Beckett. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992.
Cochran, Robert. Samuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1991.
Kenner, Hugh. A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
Pilling, John. Beckett Before Godot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Bowen, Elizabeth
Collected Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Collected Impressions. London: Longmans, 1950.
After-Thought: Pieces About Writing. London: Longmans, 1962.
Bennett, Andrew, and Royle, Nicholas. Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
Ellmann, Maud. Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Piette, Adam. Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939–1945. London: Papermac, 1995.
Carter, Angela
Burning Your Boats: Stories. London: Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings. London: Vintage, 1993.
Bristow, Joseph, and Broughton, Trev Lynn (eds.). The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism. London and New York: Longman, 1997.
Roemer, Danielle M., and Bacchilega, Christina. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2001.
Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994.
Sage, Lorna(ed.). Flesh and Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. London: Virago, 1994.
Crackanthorpe, Hubert
Wreckage: Seven Studies. London: William Heinemann, 1893.
Sentimental Studies and A Set of Village Tales. London: William Heinemann, 1895.
Last Studies. London: William Heinemann, 1897. (This edition includes an essay on Crackanthorpe by Henry James.)
Beckson, Karl. London in the 1890s: A Cultural History. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Crackanthorpe, David. Hubert Crackanthorpe and English Realism in the 1890s. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1977.
Conrad, Joseph
The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad, ed. Samuel, Hynes. 2 vols. London: William Pickering, 1992.
Carabine, Keith. ‘Introduction’, in Joseph, Conrad, Selected Short Stories. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Edition, 1997, pp. ⅶ–ⅹⅹⅵ.
Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna. The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fraser, Gail. ‘The Short Fiction’, in Stape, J. H (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 25–44.
Dickens, Charles
Selected Short Fiction, ed. Deborah, A. Thomas. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
Orel, Harold. The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Smith, Grahame. Charles Dickens: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Thomas, Deborah A.Dickens and the Short Story. London: Batsford, 1982.
Egerton, George (Mary Chavelita Dunne)
Keynotes and Discords. London: Virago, 1983. (First published London: Matthews and Lane, 1893 and Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894.)
A Leaf from The Yellow Book: The Correspondence of George Egerton, ed. Terence, Vere White. London: The Richards Press, 1958.
Chrisman, Laura. ‘Empire, “Race” and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle: The Work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner’, in Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken (eds.), Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 45–65.
Cunningham, Gail. ‘“He-Notes”: Reconstructing Masculinity’, in Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis (eds.), The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms. Basingstoke and London: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 94–106.
Hardy, Thomas
Wessex Tales. London and New York: Macmillan, 1888.
Life's Little Ironies. London and New York: Macmillan, 1894.
Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy, ed. John, Wain. London: Papermac, 1966.
Brady, Kristin. The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy. Basingstoke and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982.
Orel, Harold. The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Joyce, James
Dubliners. London: Grant Richards, 1914; London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
Bloom, Harold (ed.). James Joyce's Dubliners: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
Bollettieri, Bosinelli, Rosa, M., and Mosher, Harold F. Jr (eds.). ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998, pp. 13–40.
Gottfried, Roy. ‘“Scrupulous Meanness” Reconsidered: Dubliners as Stylistic Parody’, in Vincent, J. Cheng (ed.), Joyce in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 153–69.
Head, Dominic. The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Leonard, Garry. Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
McCabe, Colin. James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979.
Mullin, Katherine. ‘Don't Cry for Me, Argentina: “Eveline” and the Seductions of Emigration Propaganda’, in Derek, Attridge and Marjorie, Howes (eds.), Semicolonial Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 172–200.
Kelman, James
Not Not While the Giro and Other Stories. London: Polygon, 1983.
Greyhound for Breakfast. London: Secker and Warburg, 1987.
The Burn. London: Secker and Warburg, 1991.
The Good Times and Other Stories. London: Secker and Warburg, 1998.
Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political. Stirling: A. K. Press, 1992.
‘And the Judges Said–’: Essays. London: Secker and Warburg, 2002.
Craig, Cairns. The Modern Scottish Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Klaus, H. Gustav. James Kelman. Tavistock: Northcote, 2004.
Kipling, Rudyard
Collected Stories, ed. Robert, Gottlieb. London: D. Campbell, 1994.
Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings, ed. Thomas, Pinney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kemp, Sandra. Kipling's Hidden Narratives. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Mallett, Phillip. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Sullivan, Zohreh. Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
McEwan, Ian
First Love, Last Rites. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.
In Between the Sheets. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Childs, Peter (ed.). The Fiction of Ian McEwan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Malcolm, David. Understanding Ian McEwan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Ryan, Kiernan. Ian McEwan. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994.
Slay, Jack. Ian McEwan. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1996.
Mansfield, Katherine
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield. London: Constable, 1945; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
Dunbar, Pamela. Radical Mansfield: Double Discourse in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Kaplan, Sydney Janet. Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Smith, Angela. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Smith, AngelaKatherine Mansfield: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.
Morrison, Arthur
Tales of Mean Streets. London: Methuen, 1894.
‘What is a Realist?’, New Review (March 1897): 326–36.
Greenfield, John. ‘Arthur Morrison's Sherlock Clone: Martin Hewitt, Victorian Values, and London Magazine Culture, 1894–1903’, Victorian Periodicals Review 35, 1 (2002): 18–36.
Keating, P. J.The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.
Munro, Alice
Dance of the Happy Shades. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1968.
The Moons of Jupiter. London: Allen Lane, 1982.
The Progress of Love. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
Friend of My Youth. London: Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Open Secrets. London: Chatto and Windus, 1994.
The Love of a Good Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001.
Runaway. London: Chatto and Windus, 2005.
Heble, Ajay. The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Howells, Coral Ann. Alice Munro. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998.
Thacker, Robert (ed.). The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.
O'Connor, Frank
The Stories of Frank O'Connor. New York: Knopf, 1952.
My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories, ed. Julian, Barnes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005.
An Only Child. London: Macmillan, 1961.
The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story. London: Macmillan, 1963.
My Father's Son. London: Macmillan, 1968.
Lennon, Hilary (ed.). Frank O'Connor: New Critical Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
O'Faolain, Sean
Stories of Sean O'Faolain. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
Selected Stories of Sean O'Faolain. London: Constable, 1978.
The Short Story. London: Collins, 1948; revised, 1972.
Harmon, Maurice. Sean O'Faolain: A Life. London: Constable, 1994.
Storey, Michael. ‘“Not To Be Written Afterwards”: The Irish Revolution on the Irish Short Story’, Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies 28, 1 (1998): 32–47.
Pritchett, V. S.
Collected Stories. London: Chatto and Windus, 1982.
The Complete Essays. London: Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Treglown, Jeremy. V. S. Pritchett: A Working Life. London: Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Wood, James. ‘V. S. Pritchett and English Comedy’, in Zachary, Leader (ed.), On Modern British Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 8–19.
Sargeson, Frank
The Stories of Frank Sargeson. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1974.
Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writing, ed. Kevin, Cunningham. Auckland: Auckland University Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
King, Michael. Frank Sargeson: A Life. London: Viking/Allen Lane, 1995.
Lay, Graeme, and Stratford, Stephen (eds.). An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson's Centenary. Auckland: Cape Catley, 2003.
Murray, Stuart. Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930s. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.
Woolf, Virginia
The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, ed. Susan, Dick. London: Hogarth Press, 1985; revised and expanded, 1989.
Beer, Gillian. Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
Hanson, Clare. Virginia Woolf. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Roe, Sue, and Sellers, Susan (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Smith, Angela. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Snaith, Anna. Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
General critical works on the short story
Allen, Walter. The Short Story in English. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Aycock, Wendell M.The Teller and the Tale: Aspects of the Short Story. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1982.
Bates, H. E.The Modern Short Story: A Critical Survey. London: Thomas Nelson, 1941.
Bayley, John. The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen. Brighton: Harvester, 1988.
Burke, Daniel. Beyond Interpretation: Studies in the Modern Short Story. New York: Whitston, 1991.
Flora, Joseph M. (ed.). The English Short Story 1880–1945: A Critical History. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.
Hanson, Clare. Short Stories and Short Fictions: 1880–1980. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985.
Hanson, Clareed. Re-Reading the Short Story. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.
Head, Dominic. The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Lohafer, Susan. Coming to Terms with the Short Story. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Lohafer, Susanand Clary, Jo Ellen, eds. Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
May, Charles. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. New York: Twayne, 1995.
May, Charlesed. The New Short Story Theories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994.
O'Connor, Frank. The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story. London: Macmillan, 1963.
O'Faolain, Sean. The Short Story. London: Collins, 1948.
Reid, Ian. The Short Story. London and New York: Routledge, 1977.
Shaw, Valerie. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Longman, 1983.

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