British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now

Emma Young; James Bailey

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

British Women Short Story Writers

The New Woman to Now

Emma Young and James Bailey

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474401395

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About this book

Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.

What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? Considering the effect of literary inheritances, societal and cultural change, and shifting publishing demands, this collection traces the evolution of the genre through to its continued appeal to women writing today; from the New Woman to contemporary feminisms, women's anthologies to micro fiction, and modernist writers to the contemporary works.

Key Features

A foreword by Ali Smith and 12 chapters discuss a range of gender and genre issues since the fin-de-siècle to the present day.
A comprehensive account of the genre’s development provides a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of women’s writing.
Sets out a clear trajectory to map both the historical and literary connections and divergences between British women short story writers.
Offers a comprehensive account of the genre’s development to provide scholars with a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of women’s writing.
Includes new readings of canonical authors alongside more recent theoretical approaches, innovations and lesser-discussed writers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Ali Smith Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
1. Introduction Emma Young and James Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories Maura Dunst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women’s Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity Emma Liggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4. Potboilers or ‘Glimpses’ of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story Rebecca Bowler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
5. War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen Adam Piette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
6. ‘Haunted, whether we like it or not’: The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark James Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7. Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter’s Short Narratives Michelle Ryan-Sautour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
8. New Waves of Interest: Women’s Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century Ailsa Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
9. Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment Emma Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
10. Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley Sue Vice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
11. Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith’s Short Stories Ben Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
12. Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction Holly Howitt-Dring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
13. Postscript: British Women’s Short Story Writing Clare Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Contributor Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 30, 2015
ISBN: 9781474401395