Companion to the British and Irish Short Story

Cheryl Alexander Malcolm is Associate Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture, English Institute, University of Gdansk, PolandDavid Malcolm is Professor and Chair, Department of Literary Studies, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xvPart I: 1880–1945 1Introduction 31 The British and Irish Short Story to 1945 5Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David MalcolmTopics and Genres 172 The Story of Colonial Adventure 19Mariadele Boccardi3 Responses to War: 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 35Richard Greaves4 Irish Short Fiction: 1880–1945 51Patrick Lonergan5 The Detective and Crime Story: 1880–1945 65Jopi Nyman6 The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880–1945 81Becky DiBiasio7 Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945) 96Sabine Coelsch-Foisner8 Rudyard Kipling’s Art of the Short Story 114David MalcolmReading Individual Authors and Texts 1299 Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Bottle Imp,” “The Beach of Falesá,” and “Markheim” 131Michael Meyer10 Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales 140David Grylls11 Joseph Conrad: “The Secret Sharer” and “An Outpost of Progress” 149Christopher Thomas Cairney12 The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro (“Saki”) 157Sandie Byrne13 Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce’s Dubliners 165Richard Greaves14 H.G. Wells’s Short Stories: “The Country of the Blind” and “The Door in the Wall” 174Sabine Coelsch-Foisner15 D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories: “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” 183Kathryn Miles16 Virginia Woolf: “Kew Gardens” and “The Legacy” 193Stef Craps17 Katherine Mansfi eld: “The Garden Party” and “Marriage à la Mode” 202Jennifer E. Dunn18 Frank O’Connor: “Guests of the Nation” and “My Oedipus Complex” 211Greg Winston19 The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty 221Shawn O’Hare20 W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden Stories 227David Malcolm21 Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” and “Mysterious Kôr” 236Sarah DillonPart II: 1945–the Present 245Introduction 24722 The British and Irish Short Story: 1945–Present 249Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David MalcolmTopics and Genres 26123 New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945 263Greg Winston24 Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present 279James M. Lang25 Scottish Short Stories (post 1945) 294Gavin Miller26 Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay 308Michael Parker27 The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust 330Cheryl Alexander Malcolm28 Feminist Voices: Women’s Short Fiction after 1945 342Michael Meyer29 British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories 356Brett Josef Grubisic30 Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction 372Mitchell R. Lewis31 Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945 384Günther JarfeReading Individual Authors and Texts 39932 The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross 401David Malcolm33 Alan Sillitoe: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” 409Michael Parker34 The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor 416Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr35 The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett 423Andrzej Ga² siorek36 Edna O’Brien: “A Rose in the Heart of New York” 431Sinéad Mooney37 Doris Lessing: African Stories 440Don Adams38 The Desire for Clarity: Seán O’Faoláin’s “Lovers of the Lake” 448Paul Delaney39 The Short Stories of Muriel Spark 456Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr40 Jean Rhys: “Let Them Call It Jazz” 464Cheryl Alexander Malcolm41 George Mackay Brown: “Witch,” “Master Halcrow, Priest,” “A Time to Keep,” and “The Tarn and the Rosary” 472Gavin Miller42 William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art 480John Kenny43 John McGahern: Nightlines 488Stanley van der Ziel44 The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty’s “Walking the Dog” 498Jerzy Jarniewicz45 Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire – Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism 507Madelena Gonzalez46 J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape 516Mitchell R. Lewis47 The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri 524Wolfgang Görtschacher48 James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast 532Peter Clandfield49 Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time 541Patrick LonerganIndex 550

"Companion to the British and Irish Short Story is an instructive and engaging guide, covering a broad range of interest in fiction from schoolwork to academic research." (Reference Reviews, April 2009)