Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s

• List of Figures. Introduction 1. 'The Providing of the World’s Thought and Reading': The Short Story in the Strand 2. 'An Aristocracy of Talent': The Short Story in the Yellow Book 3. 'The Connoisseur’s Comfort and the Dilettante’s Delight': The Short Story in Black and White Conclusion. Appendix A: Short Stories in the Strand 1891-1900. Appendix B: Short Stories in the Yellow Book 1894-1897. Appendix C: Short Stories in Black and White 1891-1900. Notes. Bibliography. Index

"Chan's book thus applies current approaches to print and commodity culture to the critically overlooked genre of the short story, with impressive results."-Madeleine A. Vala, University of Puerto Rico, (Victorian Studies journal)