TY - BOOK AU - D'hoker,Elke AU - Baldwin,Dean AU - D’hoker,Elke AU - Edensor,Louise AU - Einhaus,Ann-Marie AU - Grice,Annalise AU - Hughes,Daniel AU - Kajita,Yui AU - Malcolm,David AU - McCracken,Saskia AU - McEvoy,Tara AU - Mourant,Chris AU - Standlee,Whitney AU - Thorniley,Tessa AU - West,Emma AU - Wood,Alice TI - The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950 SN - 9781474461085 AV - PR829 .M63 2021 U1 - 823/.0109 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - English periodicals KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Short stories KW - Publishing KW - Great Britain KW - Short stories, English KW - History and criticism KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; 1 The ‘wire-puller’: L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of the Short Story --; 2 The Short Story Series of Annie S. Swan for The Woman at Home --; 3 Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Albemarle: A Study of Contexts --; 4 ‘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 Fiction --; 5 Rhythm and the Short Story --; 6 For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artist Stories in The Royal and The Strand --; 7 Fiction for the Woman of To-day: The Modern Short Story in Eve --; 8 Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercury --; 9 Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping Magazine --; 10 Virginia Woolf and the Magazines --; 11 Horizon Magazine and the Wartime Short Story, 1940–1945 --; 12 John Lehmann’s War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940–1950) --; 13 Voicing ‘the native tang of idiom’: Lagan Magazine, 1943–1946 --; 14 The Short Story in Wales (1937–1949): ‘Though we write in English, we are rooted in Wales’ --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474461108 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474461108 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474461108/original ER -