Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Elke D'hoker, Chris Mourant, University of Leuven) D'hoker, Elke (Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham) Mourant, Chris (Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature, Elke D'Hoker

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Explores the relationship between magazine culture and the development of the modern short story form in BritainForegrounds the role of magazine culture in the development of the modern short story formAnalyses a wide range of publications, from standard illustrated popular magazines to avant-garde little magazinesSheds new light on well-known publications and examines others that are as yet obscure or understudiedExplores the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short storiesHelps recover neglected writers/editors and cast new light on more canonical onesThis collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880 1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning of short stories within a variety of periodical publications highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked writers into developing the genre.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-28
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474461092

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Elke D’hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of a critical study on John Banville (2004) and of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016). She has (co-)edited several essay collections, including Unreliable Narration (2008), Irish Women Writers (2011), Mary Lavin (2013), The Irish Short Story (2015), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021) and Sarah Hall: Critical Essays (2023). She has also (co-)edited two short story collections: Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021) and The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2023). She is vice-president of EFACIS and an editor of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe. Chris Mourant is Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century English Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and he is an editor of the journal Modernist Cultures.

IntroductionElke D’hoker and Chris Mourant1. The ‘Wire-Puller’: L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of the Short StoryWhitney Standlee2. The Short Story Series of Annie S. Swan for The Woman at HomeElke D’hoker3. Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Albemarle: A Study of ContextsDavid Malcolm4. ‘It is astonishing how little literature has to show of the life of the poor’: Ford Madox Ford’s The English Review and D. H. Lawrence’s Early Short FictionAnnalise Grice5. Rhythm and the Short StoryLouise Edensor6. For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artists Stories in The Royal and The Strand Emma West7. Fiction for the Woman of To-Day: The Modern Short Story in EveAlice Wood8. Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercury Yui Kajita9. Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping MagazineSaskia McCracken10. Virginia Woolf and the MagazinesDean Baldwin11. Horizon Magazine and the Wartime Short Story, 1940–45Ann-Marie Einhaus12. John Lehmann’s War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940–50) Tessa Thorniley13. Voicing ‘the native tang of idiom’: Lagan Magazine, 1943–46Tara McEvoy14. The Short Story in Wales (1937–49): ‘though we write in English, we are rooted in Wales’Daniel HughesBibliographyIndex

The collection as a whole eﬀectively tackles the diﬃcult task of balancing textual and con-textual analysis. As such, it provides a rich discussion of the short story within periodical culture over time. The chapters demonstrate a real commitment to exploring diverse short stories and venues up to 1950 even as they turn our critical attention to intertextual relations, oﬀering necessary breadth to our understanding of the short story during this period.