| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The 'wire-puller': L.T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of and the Short Story -- Chapter 2 The Short Story Series of Annie S. Swan for The Woman at Home -- Chapter 3 Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Albemarle: A Study of Contexts -- Chapter 4 'It is astonishing how little literature has to show of the life of the poor': Ford Madox -- Chapter 5 Rhythm and the Short Story -- Chapter 6 For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artist Stories in The Royal and The Strand |
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Chapter 7 Fiction for the Woman of To-day: The Modern Short Story in Eve -- Chapter 8 Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercu -- Chapter 9 Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping Magazine -- Chapter 10 Virginia Woolf and the Magazines -- Chapter 11 Horizon Magazine and the Wartime Short Story, 1940-1945 -- Chapter 12 John Lehmann's War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) -- Chapter 13 Voicing 'the native tang of idiom': Lagan Magazine, 1943-1946 |
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Chapter 14 The Short Story in Wales (1937-1949): 'Though we write in English, we are rooted in Wale -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2021) |
| Subject |
Short stories, English -- History and criticism
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Short stories -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Short stories -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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English periodicals -- History -- 19th century
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English periodicals -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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English periodicals.
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Short stories, English.
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Short stories -- Publishing.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
D'hoker, Elke, editor
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Mourant, Chris, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474461108 |
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1474461107 |
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9781474496032 |
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1474496032 |
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