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024 7 _a10.1515/9781474401395
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781474401395
035 _a(DE-B1597)615154
035 _a(OCoLC)1301549899
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 0 0 _aPR116
_b.B75 2015
072 7 _aLIT003000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aYoung, Emma
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBritish Women Short Story Writers :
_bThe New Woman to Now /
_cEmma Young, James Bailey.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (216 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tForeword --
_t1. Introduction --
_t2. The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories --
_t3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity --
_t4. Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story --
_t5. War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen --
_t6. 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark --
_t7. Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short Narratives --
_t8. New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century --
_t9. Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment --
_t10. Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley --
_t11. Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories --
_t12. Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction --
_t13. Postscript: British Women's Short Story Writing --
_tContributor Biographies --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aEssays 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aShort stories, English
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
_2bisacsh
700 1 _aBailey, James
_eautore
700 1 _aBowler, Rebecca
_eautore
700 1 _aCox, Ailsa
_eautore
700 1 _aDavies, Ben
_eautore
700 1 _aDunst, Maura
_eautore
700 1 _aHanson, Clare
_eautore
700 1 _aHowitt-Dring, Holly
_eautore
700 1 _aLiggins, Emma
_eautore
700 1 _aPiette, Adam
_eautore
700 1 _aRyan-Sautour, Michelle
_eautore
700 1 _aSmith, Ali
_eautore
700 1 _aVice, Sue
_eautore
700 1 _aYoung, Emma
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781474401395
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474401395
856 4 2 _3Cover
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