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British Women Short Story Writers : The New Woman to Now.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474401395
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: British Women Short Story WritersDDC classification:
  • 823.01099287
LOC classification:
  • PR116 -- .B758 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories -- Chapter 3 Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity -- Chapter 4 Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short -- Chapter 5 War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen -- Chapter 6 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark -- Chapter 7 Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short Narratives -- Chapter 8 New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 9 Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment -- Chapter 10 Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley -- Chapter 11 Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories -- Chapter 12 Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction -- Chapter 13 Postscript: British Women's Short Story Writing -- Index.
Summary: Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories -- Chapter 3 Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity -- Chapter 4 Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short -- Chapter 5 War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen -- Chapter 6 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark -- Chapter 7 Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short Narratives -- Chapter 8 New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 9 Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment -- Chapter 10 Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley -- Chapter 11 Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories -- Chapter 12 Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction -- Chapter 13 Postscript: British Women's Short Story Writing -- Index.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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