The modern short story and magazine culture, 1880-1950 /edited by Elke D'hoker and Chris Mourant.
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Includes bibliographies and index.
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 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 Chapter 14 The Short Story in Wales (1937-1949): 'Though we write in English, we are rooted in Wale -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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.
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Short stories, English--History and criticism. Short stories--Publishing--History--Great Britain--19th century. Short stories--Publishing--History--Great Britain--20th century. English periodicals--History--19th century. English periodicals--History--20th century.