TY - BOOK ID - 37603419 TI - The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English AU - Delaney, Paul, AU - Basseler, Michael AU - Coleman, Philip AU - Collins, Michael J AU - Cox, Ailsa AU - Delaney, Paul AU - Dietz, Laura AU - D'hoker, Elke AU - Evans, Lucy AU - Hall, Alice AU - Hunter, Adrian AU - Jones, Darryl AU - Jones, Timothy AU - Lilley, Deborah AU - March-Russell, Paul AU - Naidu, Sam AU - Piette, Adam AU - Pong, Beryl AU - Robbins, Ruth AU - Scott, Jeremy AU - Smith, Jennifer J AU - Solnick, Samuel AU - Grubisic, Brett Josef AU - Price, Joanna PY - 2022 SN - 9781474400657 9781474400664 1474442234 1474400663 1474400655 178785762X 9781474442237 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Short stories, English KW - History and criticism KW - E-books KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37603419 AB - New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature. This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing 'industry', and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre. ER -